When The World Split in Two

This piece began with a banana.

Anyone who has lived with a two year old knows the rule. Bananas should stay whole. But sometimes it breaks, and suddenly the world splits in two.

From the outside, it looks like a meltdown over something small. A flop. Tears fall like weather. Adults rush in with logic and solutions, trying to restore order.

But the banana is rarely just a banana.

For a toddler, expectation and safety are closely tied together. When something breaks unexpectedly, it disrupts a fragile sense of control. What seems trivial to us can feel like real loss.

This work sees flop not as failure, but as feelings spilling over. It captures the moment when a small break feels too big to handle. It gently suggests that what brings the world back into place is not repair, but being seen and understood.