This painting loosely borrows from formats used by late medieval and early painters who created frescos to tell stories from the bible on chapel walls. This piece can be read left to right with the five largest pictures representing the overarching story of our main character from life to death. The smaller paintings across the bottom of the panels is meant to be a predella, the painted panels forming the lowest element of an altarpiece supporting the larger narrative. The protagonist in the painting is brought up in a strict Catholic family with all of the ritual and tradition that encompasses. She leaves the church to become an artist, and comes to the realization that art can be viewed as a kind of religion; the great paintings from art history treated like sacred objects, the great museums like cathedrals. At the end of her life, she grapples with what an after-life might be and envisions a letting go of ego.