Out is Through, 2021, oil and casein on canvas, 36 x 12 in. / 91.44 x 30.48 cm.

Out is Through, Lacey Vilandry, 2021, oil and casein on canvas, 36 x 12 in. / 91.44 x 30.48 cm.

Sometimes our pasts are a hard pill to swallow, and scars run deeper than we realize. I am a seen and unheard child of a mother who struggled with mental health and addiction. I am the child of someone who thought I was her savior as she stumbled down a path of self-destruction; I couldn't save her