No one tells you that to love deeply is to live at the fault line

where beauty and sorrow border one another.

What they don’t say is that unconditional love doesn’t rescue you from pain...

it walks beside it.

Because to be bound is not to be spared.

It is to be tethered

through the seasons

through the storms

through the unraveling, the breaking, the repair

and the choosing, again and again.

Have you ever felt this, where joy and sorrow live side by side? I'd love to hear your thoughts.

✨ I’m honored to be a finalist in the Beautiful Bizarre Art Prize 2025.

Voting for the People’s Choice Award is still open if you feel called to support my art. Vote here!