This is an editorial illustration I created to represent the essay My Two-House, Duffle Bag Life, part of the Modern Love column in The New York Times. The article is about a child whose parents get divorced and how she struggled with the change. She thought she lost the link that held her family together but then realized that she was the link that held them together. I took this concept of the child being the link between her parents/their two homes and merged it with palm reading and the idea that the lines on our palms can tell us a lot about our lives and futures. When putting these two concepts together, the hands become a map of the child's life and route, with the lines of her palms (based on a photo I took of my hands and how the lines on my palms lined up) becoming roads, and the path between her mother and father's houses connecting when she puts her hands together.