My painting practice explores the transition from girl to woman, and how woman mourn the girl they used to be. During coming of age, women can experience the transition as a loss of innocence and joy in favour of succumbing to societal pressures which pushes women into the ideal of what womanhood should be. My inquiry into this takes form through still life paintings, inspired by my own life and that of friends who have also experienced this transition, and reflects how girlhood has left traces within our womanhood as a way to try reclaim the joys of womanhood.