We live in a world obsessed with quick fixes—meditation apps, self-help books, productivity hacks—but what if the answer has always been something simpler? What if feeling better isn’t about doing more, but about allowing ourselves to return to a state of play? We forget that as children, we instinctively knew how to process emotions through movement, through touch, through imagination. But somewhere along the way, we were told to put our toys away, to grow up.

“We Grew Up So Fast” is inspired by psychologist Dora Kalff, who developed sandplay therapy through the influence of her mentor and friend, Carl Jung. Jung once reflected that “he felt no relief until he remembered how happy he had been as a child, playing with blocks and building little houses out of stones and mud.” As an adult, he returned to that creative play and “found his thoughts clarified and his feelings lifted in a stream of active fantasies and creative insights.” Kalff transformed this instinct into a therapeutic method where children and adults constructed symbolic scenes in a sandbox using miniature figures. Each object held unconscious meaning. As she observed, “the images they chose represented both conscious and unconscious dimensions from their internal world, and how the unfolding of sandplay scenes released transformative energies that resolved their symptoms and initiated a natural movement toward wholeness.”

At its core, the piece features an hourglass, encased in my signature Spark shape, designed to rotate on the wall. Like the flowing sand inside, we are meant to shift, release, and transform. We are never stagnant—only evolving, uncovering, and becoming more of who we truly are.