This article features Nienke Izurieta, a New Brunswick photographer, and her exploration of self-healing through light and self-reflection within portraiture. Her restorative light work extends to landscapes and buildings familiar to NB residents, displaying the need for restoration externally as well as internally. Izurieta's work showcases how art can transform its creator and subject in the processes of destruction in both objects and old patterns of thinking. This article is written by Jennifer Musgrave and originally appeared in Created Here Magazine, “Psyche,” Volume 11, March 2020, Pages 4-11.