"Dunce B" sits at the heart of the collection "Dunce" - a portrait of confronting my own missteps with a mix of shame, humour and vulnerability. The dunce hat becomes symbolic of a stage costume, marking the figure not as punished but as self-aware. The cigarette, the empty martini glass, the broken heart among the whole ones: each small symbol circles the feeling - the moment after a painful realisation, when you finally stop pretending and have to sit with yourself. It's not about heartbreak so much as the quiet reckoning that follows, the strange tenderness you can feel towards you own fatal flaws.