I first learned how to bead on a loom when I was around 8 years old. This had been the first and only time I beaded, until 2022. This piece is the first time I returned to beadwork and I decided to fully immerse myself into it. For 20 days I created 4 designs (2 of those days I created 5). I either spent all my free time beading or making new patterns. As the title suggests, this was my cathartic experience re-connecting to my heritage. All 82 of these designs were created using square stitch (see video). As opposed to a loom, this takes more time as one bead is being added at a time as opposed to 45 beads at once. Total time spent is 82 hours.