You don’t have to become someone else
to be whole.

As I Am holds the weight and the wonder.
The quiet, the wild, the contradictions we carry.
It’s not about erasing the shadow —
but learning to hold it without losing the light.

You are allowed to be all of it.

Spray paint, ink and acrylic on canvas 100 × 120 × 2 cm, in white wooden frame
Maria K. Nielsen (MKN) 2025