The idea behind Harrison’s work, both in her paintings and clinical work, is not the restoration of one’s original state, but the transformation and integration of parts of the self that are wounded, messy, and confused, into a cohesive, beautiful, and lively whole. It is the discovery of a new way of being through the act of taking back layers, “to get back to some of the state of origin, that is never quite what it was ever again—but something more wise, more worn, more beautiful in all its experience.”
