This painting titled "Isolation" revolves around mental health. The dragon symbolizes the girl's doubts, fears, and overall negative thoughts or emotions. It stares her down as she sits, completely vulnerable to it. However, she is not sure if the dragon is real or just something within her own mind. At the tail end of the dragon, it is two dimensional like a mural on the wall. However, it gradually emerges from the wall and stares her down. This is meant to show that dynamic.
The words on the wall symbolize her thoughts, and they sometimes contradict themselves; such as "run" and "can't run." The words are also somewhat of a surreal aspect since she couldn't have actually written those words so high up on the wall.

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