She painted, and then she took drawing, printmaking, and sculpture. These other disciplines had an unusual impact. “They made me rethink what art is, what painting is, and what I was doing here,” she says. “And what came out of that was a return to painting, but in a very different way.” While her paintings reflect, in part, her old life surviving “information overload,” she is living a new life, infused with art, enhanced by classical piano, and graced with her first solo show, just as she graduates from the Diploma Program and prepares to enter the Fifth Year Certificate Program.