For the past year, my practice has been shaped by a persistent sense of overwhelm and exhaustion. This work emerges from that state. Outpour Box is a self-portrait that holds the feeling of being full to the point of rupture, of trying to contain weight that has nowhere else to go. My head appears breaking out of a box, slime spilling and dripping, as if the body can no longer hold what it has been asked to carry. The box becomes a site of containment, pressure, and expectation; the outpouring a moment of release. While the image begins from my own experience, it speaks to a broader, shared fatigue, one that is social, political, and deeply gendered, carried quietly and repeatedly by women. This work is both confession and offering. It is made as a small act of release, and as a reminder that it is okay to let things spill. You are receiving this piece as a New Year’s gift, shared with the hope that it allows space to loosen, to exhale, and to put down whatever has been weighing on you.