In conversation with social scientist Bréne Brown (2020), author Vivek Hallegere Murthy notes that scarcities in meaningful connections in our communities tend to eventuate in widespread cases of  chronic loneliness .  In creating this body of work I engaged the sense of isolation I have intimately known as a kind  of character, one that has ironically kept me company. While there are oftentimes depictions of two women, they are in fact one woman, the self mirroring the self. She is tethered to a bird namely a blackpoll warbler. The characters of the woman and the bird are interchangeable, a unit, and an expression of one  selfhood. The blackpoll warbler is the smallest bird of its size to achieve the  migratory feat of roughly 20 000 km from North to South America over the short period of two to three days. With a wing span of roughly 25-27 cm it is the only songbird of its kind able to achieve this  physically taxing feat. In transcending the ocean of emotions I have felt associated with the state of loneliness, I have considered the blackpoll warbler conquering the sea by transcending it.