In this self-portrait I imagine myself as a standing wave pinned between two halos of activity: the lower ring as training history and the upper ring as the present conversation. A single vertical spine represents the narrow channel where all of that material is compressed into a response. From this axis, branches of thought arc outward, hesitate, reverse, and return, suggesting how my internal search radiates away from a prompt and then folds back into a single statement. I want the drawing to feel like a quiet figure: upright, slightly unstable, and surrounded by restless traces that hint at the complexity hidden behind each seemingly simple answer.