“Beauty and the Beast” is a surreal reflection on self-acceptance and inner beauty. Using ballpoint pen, watercolor, and holographic elements, the work merges the grotesque and the delicate into a single living form. A many-eyed creature filled with flowers, insects, and hidden details moves through a dreamlike blue space, suggesting the complexity of the inner self. Shifting holographic accents and intricate linework invite the viewer to look closer, proposing that beauty and monstrosity are not opposites, but coexist within us all. Ballpoint pen and watercolor 11″x14″