04/29/2026
I’ve long been interested in the intersection of healing, art, and transformation, so designing the visual direction for “Not My Baggage” felt especially meaningful to me.
At its core, this project speaks to something deeply human: we all carry baggage. Some of it belongs to our own life lessons; some of it was never ours to carry in the first place.
For the main cover, I imagined a woman in a baggage claim space—inspired by the tense, anxious atmosphere of waiting by an airport conveyor belt. But instead of being overwhelmed by the crowd or the uncertainty, she takes what is hers and leaves with clarity, steadiness, and lightness.
The companion guided journal, created as a visual diptych with the book cover, shows the same woman in the same emotional universe—but this time, instead of anxiously reclaiming her baggage, she is calmly journaling beside it. For me, that image reflects an equally important part of healing: making space to reflect on what we carry, and to discern what is truly ours.
The back cover extends this visual language through baggage tags labeled with familiar emotional patterns: overfunctioning, people-pleasing, staying small, not mine, return to sender…
The overall mood is painterly, impressionistic, organic, and gently urban—meant to evoke emotional flow, softness, and the possibility of release.
