Cover of Spilling Open: The Art of Becoming Yourself

Spilling Open: The Art of Becoming Yourself

Harrison is an aspiring 23-year-old artist whose private journal and art provide an intimate and moving picture of what it means to enter a contemporary adult world filled with contradictions. Full color.

Audience
adultyoung adult
Length
short · 176 pages

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