RED RITES: "A Frame Of Becoming" This piece speaks to what it means to grow up carrying weight you didn't choose-pains from family, pressure from society, and the fight to still be yourself in the middle of it all. The red is like blood that life has drawn from you, but instead of dying from it, you turn it into a story. It is the feeling of being held back... judged... boxed in yet still standing, still moving, even if it's just in small steps. It's for anyone who knows what it means to struggle quietly... but deeply-