In the included photo, my painting HOW DO YOU LOVE #1 features varying tones of blue culminating to depict a patchwork-esque impasto style of painting. Each brushstroke defines the sky and surrounds the celestial bodies featured (the Sun, the Moon, and the Earth). Centered, above the Sun and between the Earth and the Moon, is a phrase comprised of orange and white lettering: HOW DO YOU LOVE? This is the question of my first collection of original art. How do you love? How do you show yourself compassion? As an OCD sufferer, who was only diagnosed this year after 25 years of suffering untreated, I find it important to embrace art not only as my career and a joy of my life, but as a means of healing and eliciting the compassion I would afford to my loved ones. OCD bullies my brain from the moment I wake until the moment my exhausted brain unplugs itself. There's no better way for me to showcase life with OCD, and self-compassion, than with art. This is only HDYL#1!