This work is about surviving a global pandemic with mental illness. The materials are items I used to cope. The bottom layer is drawn in ashes set with alcohol and soap, then layered paint, liquid blush, and more ashes, applied through a paper spiral taped to a chopstick. The process conveys my conflicts with mental illness during quarantine’s suffocation. It was excruciating, but overcoming it was transcendental. My works are influenced by music production. I rearrange and overlap elements as notes to compose pieces. With mental illness, creativity is often elusive; intuition is what guides me through my practice. @angphchens