St. Louis based graphic designer, Rylee Stafford, has been refining her skills in highly emotional based pieces during her college career at Fontbonne University. She combines melancholy, anxiety, and pain with realistic scenes not only showing her artistic skills, but also revealing the emotional journey she has experienced. Her use of discomfort allows Rylee to challenge the boundaries of emotion- utilizing heartache to tell stories, which explore the depths of change and growth within an individual.