This piece emerged during a period of profound transition—a time when I was unlearning patterns of codependency, grieving the dissolution of relationships, and confronting the silence of my own solitude. In the space left behind by competing values that once erased my own, I began the slow work of coagulation—gathering fragments of self that had been scattered, reforming them into something whole. The textures and tones in this piece mirror the push and pull of that transformation: the dissolution of an old life, the raw discomfort of restructuring, and the quiet serenity of self-discovery. What was once fluid and uncertain begins to take shape, not as something rigid, but as something resilient. “Coagulum” is not just about loss or healing—it is about the alchemy of becoming. It is the moment after unraveling, when what remains begins to solidify, revealing the form of a self that was always there, waiting.