'The Only Way Is Through' is a multimedia installation consisting of three objects titled, My brother’s feet look remarkably like my mother’s did, Portrait of my mother as an empty bathtub, and I am getting my mother’s spider veins. It studies the intersection of grief and heredity as well as investigates presence and absence. The feet and leg segment castings are representations of my sibling and me exploring the traits we inherited from our mother. The bathtub stands in for her and symbolizes the womb that bore my brother and I as well as the place where she bathed us. The bathtub is empty and dry; my mother has passed but lingers on in the features she gave to us as well as these daily rituals. We all live in the shadows of loss and as we try to circumvent this inevitable grief, we realize the only way is through.