The work explores the subtle, often hidden process of change that unfolds across a lifetime. The space between becoming someone new while slowly unbecoming who we once were.

Many of the poems reflect on the expectations we place on ourselves, the quiet shock of reality when life moves in a different direction, and the unexpected ways loss reshapes us.

The title itself carries a quiet irony.

Personal growth is rarely graceful. The changes that allow us to survive - emotionally, creatively, or spiritually - can sometimes feel unbecoming. They may challenge who we thought we were, or who others expected us to be.

As we evolve, some things inevitably fall away: old identities, relationships, certainties, and imagined futures. Growth often arrives hand in hand with loss.

The botanical paintings accompanying the poems echo these themes through layered organic forms, shifting colour palettes, and intersecting marks that suggest memory, time, and transformation.

Rather than capturing nature at its most recognisable moments, the paintings explore the transitions between seasons - the blurred, uncertain spaces where change is already happening but not yet fully visible.

It is within these quiet thresholds that the work finds its voice.

A poem from the work...