Through the Circumstance reflects both of these young women's response to fear-inspiring losses, which continue to inform their creative lives. For Neang, this loss began in her adolescence when her parents’ divorce resulted in the entire breakdown of her extended family. Blanchard's experience of fear and loss was the result of a devastating fire which burned her family home when she was in high school.

Blanchard's work investigates the need for shelter and safety through what she calls "a sort of wrapping or cocooning that reveals humans as animals with fear-based instincts." Worms or intestine-like forms reoccur in her work, exploring ideas of attraction and repulsion, also bringing into play a sort of duality between safety and self-suffocation. Neang's work explores similar themes of confinement and tension. Worlds within worlds are created, which the viewer feels compelled to follow as if seeking their own "virtual escape."

While in Blanchard's work there is a darkness in value and imagery that could be described as familiar but unsettling, Neang applies a lighter, more ephemeral touch, providing a suggestion of weightlessness, that is haunting, yet not without substance. Blanchard's dark charcoal marks offset thin, form-defining lines, inspiring a dreamlike quality that borders on the fantastic but that also maintains a rawness in its realization. Neang's work is far more refined, with much attention to line quality and detail. She also emphasizes the emotionality of her work with color, most often rust and sanguine hues reminiscent of Earth elements and the body.

Neang received her BA in art studio at California State University, Sacramento and has taught art and creative engineering for several years. She now resides in the Bay Area and is currently working as an Education intern at The Children's Creativity Museum in San Francisco. Blanchard received her BFA from the University of Florida in 2010 and moved to San Francisco where she is currently a first year MFA student in the painting program at the San Francisco Art Institute.