Experimenting with layering digital media on physical sculpture, the notion of maturing is connoted by the fruit stem connecting the toy teddy in its sealed plastic to a ripe cherry imprinted with puckering lips. Though they appear different from each other, these symbols share the same narrative at varied stations of a lifetime—the teddy, a child protected from various pollutants in its environment to the ripened cherry, a young adult exploring sensuality and attempting to form intimacy with the world.