As the work evolved, successive layers of acrylic paint were built up around and over these fragments, transforming the surface into something more geological than map-like. The composition began to resemble a cross-section of a geode, as though the painting had been unearthed rather than constructed. The created strata of color trace imagined depths, speaking to pressure, time, and internal growth. Through this process of excavation and layering, the work becomes a meditation on place, presence, and self, revealing what lies beneath the surface through acts of building, burying, and revealing.