After my Second Life project (which had strict parameters and was partly collaborative) I felt the need to tap into my subconscious and re-orientate my work more towards the personal. This new direction has given me an opening to address and sort through parts of my life that I had chosen not to look at for fear of coming undone. Being a middle-aged, gender fluid queer person who only started tending to their queer life at 45 and being someone who has been a life-long caregiver, community builder, and a person who has chosen artmaking over capital-gaining, my focus on the everyday subject matter that is my life has illuminated the personal as political. These efforts to channel my lived experience has led me toward researching radical theories within the politics of care movement. This movement is rooted in the material. It doesn’t equate to innocence or moral frames of mind. It proposes moving away from liberal goals of purity, feminine virtue and deservingness and requires admitting to and managing forms of violence. To care is to be creative, to be willing to imagine otherwise, to deal with messiness and contamination. And in all that, it has transformative potential. I am interested in developing a visual language that will articulate some of these notions and simultaneously integrate my personal narrative. By elevating the politics of care, I hope to inspire a deeper understanding of the interconnectedness of our individual and collective struggles and to contribute to the broader dialogue about how we can build a world that values the well-being of all its inhabitants.