The Worlds Within

While creating this drawing, I was thinking about the different versions of ourselves that we carry within.

There’s the person we show to the world, changing and adjusting slightly depending on who we’re with. Different parts of us surface in front of different people.

And then there are all the other selves beneath that, our instincts, fears and desires, the things we’ve learned to hide, the parts we’ve outgrown, and sometimes the parts we haven’t met yet, or are still learning to know.

But I was also thinking about sovereignty. About taking your life into your own hands.

Because perhaps taking control doesn’t mean silencing all those different voices within us. Perhaps it means learning to hold them, to listen to them, and still decide for ourselves where we want to go.

To me, sovereignty isn’t about becoming one fixed, certain version of yourself.

It is about knowing that all these parts can exist within you and still knowing that you are the one holding the reins.