Project Lonicera is a performative exploration of healing from complex PTSD, enacted through the process of artistic homecoming. The project consists of five paintings, each a reimagining of a work the artist created in childhood, paintings lost to time but retrieved through photographic traces.

This act of reinterpreting mirrors the journey of trauma therapy: returning to the origin of pain, confronting buried memory and transforming it through new understanding. From afar, the paintings closely resemble the originals. From up close, intricate new layers and nuances emerge, representing the adult psyche processing past wounds. Each painting is titled after a stage of grief, acknowledging it as a necessary step in post-traumatic healing.

At the centre is Lonicera, an installation in a darkened enclosure. Visitors peer through a single aperture to witness light emerging from a flower symbol, each of its petals echoing one of the paintings. The light now feels like a threshold. Warm, certain, yet beckoning towards something unknown.