I’ve been drawing Eight since I was eight. I didn’t fully understand why until I started this project.
She is the age that remembering became something I could never forget again—the age that my whole self returns to, infinitely.
This work comes from one place: giving that version of myself a voice she wasn’t allowed to have, and a space where she can be seen and heard.
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This space is for people who carry stories that began too early.
For those who speak in symbols, pictures, sounds, and metaphors.
For those who understand that healing isn’t public, quick, or linear—but more like a puzzle room, where each piece comes together at some point, and it finally makes sense.
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About Eight
Eight isn’t a character. She isn’t something to decode.
She is a vantage point.
She is the age when memory sharpens, when rules appear, and the world begins to divide into what is seen and what is hidden.
This work doesn’t try to resolve the past.
It allows it to speak.
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How the work exists
Each piece begins with an image.
The poem that follows doesn’t explain it—it lives inside it.
There is no required order.
There is nothing to solve.
You can move through it however you want.
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A note on care
This space isn’t a guide, a workbook, or a support group.
Nothing here is asking you to heal, fix, forgive, or explain.
Nothing here replaces therapy or professional care.
If something resonates, you can take it.
If it doesn’t, you can leave it.
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If you’re here
You don’t need to understand it.
You don’t need to “get it.”
You don’t need to agree.
You’re just welcome to take a look.