Nude seated figure on stone reaching toward a singing bird perched on a hand emerging from a tree, symbolic oil painting on canvas.
Nude seated figure on stone reaching toward a singing bird perched on a hand emerging from a tree, symbolic oil painting on canvas.

A Song Of Home Never Reached

$18,500.00

A Song Of Home Never Reached
48" × 48"
Oil on Canvas
2025

Part of the Oracles collection.

We first come to understand ourselves through the people who hold power over us. Their approval can become a kind of map, teaching us which parts of ourselves are safe to express and which are easier to leave behind.

Years later, we may feel the absence of those parts before we understand what was lost. Reclaiming them is not a return to an untouched beginning. It is the gradual recognition that what once had to be silenced may still be capable of growth.

Finding that voice changes our relationship to the authority that shaped us. What once defined the boundaries of the self no longer has the final word. Home becomes less a place we were meant to reach and more the life we create when we can finally speak as ourselves.

A Song Of Home Never Reached
48" × 48"
Oil on Canvas
2025

Part of the Oracles collection.

We first come to understand ourselves through the people who hold power over us. Their approval can become a kind of map, teaching us which parts of ourselves are safe to express and which are easier to leave behind.

Years later, we may feel the absence of those parts before we understand what was lost. Reclaiming them is not a return to an untouched beginning. It is the gradual recognition that what once had to be silenced may still be capable of growth.

Finding that voice changes our relationship to the authority that shaped us. What once defined the boundaries of the self no longer has the final word. Home becomes less a place we were meant to reach and more the life we create when we can finally speak as ourselves.