“Sunglasses & Advil” lives inside a former timeline in the artist’s life — one where chaos felt casual, forgetting the night before was a punchline, and coping had become a culture. It reflects a chapter she didn’t analyze from afar but learned through immersion, a period when the artist had to live inside what wasn’t meant for her in order to understand why it couldn’t stay. The palette echoes that familiar swirl of distraction and bravado, while the playful shapes reveal the parts of her that were still quietly blooming beneath the noise. Nothing about this chapter was rushed or bypassed; it was a landscape the artist walked through honestly, so she could eventually rise beyond it. This piece honors the earlier version of herself without shame and without romanticizing — simply with truth. It recognizes that some lessons only unfold in real time, and that every detour, every numbed escape, every blurred morning ultimately contributed to the clarity the artist carries today.