Whole Anyway

Amy Hui

Mixed media – acrylic, embroidery floss

This diptych is based on an MRI scan of my brain.

The image is abstracted and split across two panels, suggesting a mind shaped by pressure, influence, and control. On the left, severed lines mark a break—a release from manipulation, expectation, and internalized voices that once distorted thought and perception.

But the work refuses to stay fragmented. It chooses wholeness.

This piece sits in the tension between influence and autonomy, fragmentation and integration. It reflects the process of reclaiming agency—the mind as both site of fracture and place of return, where truth is both understood and experienced.

Whole Anyway is a choice. To cut ties with what distorts, and to move fully toward wholeness—to allow for rewiring, new pathways, and the renewal of the mind.

Wholeness is not lost here. It is reclaimed.