My motivation when I first started creating in college was a feeling. An overwhelming feeling that I wanted to explain to other people. I am a person who communicates through empathy and emotion, so it can be hard from time to time for people to truly understand. Because of this, I started creating to cope with that feeling, for people to understand complicated emotions and circumstances that would normally be hard to explain. These personal events evolved into an environment, at the time I was suffering from paranoia. I had just moved away from home for the first time, started college and had no pets where I was living. I was so stressed and being away from home was hard to handle all at once. I started to have great amounts of stress, anxiety, the usual worry that I go through every day, then it escalated to being afraid of dark rooms and corners. Even shadows started to move on their own while hallucinations began to keep me awake. Irrational terror began to wreak havoc in my life and still does sometimes in my life today. Creating this space with targeted spot lighting allowed me to create these shadows, an atmosphere similar to my experience. Creating this environment allowed me to give that fear a face, something to come to terms with that is easier to battle in the physical world.