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Hope Seems Fragile In This Dark
48" × 36"
Oil on Canvas
2025
Part of the Oracles collection.
A young figure stands beside a pale, tree-like form while an elegantly dressed woman extends a hand above him. Resting in the child's palms is the skull of a small bird, a delicate remnant held with unusual care. The surrounding darkness isolates the figures and heightens the tension between tenderness and unease, while the graceful gesture above them suggests guidance, protection, or control that remains open to interpretation.
Created as part of the Oracles series, the painting examines how identity is shaped by the systems, relationships, and expectations that surround us in early life. Throughout the collection, recurring symbols such as trees, birds, hands, and fragmented forms become reflections on belonging, vulnerability, authority, and the ways meaning is inherited, imposed, or reclaimed.
Hope Seems Fragile In This Dark reflects on the persistence of hope when confronted with loss, uncertainty, and influence beyond one's control. The bird's skull becomes both a symbol of what has been damaged and a reminder of what once sang. Rather than offering simple optimism, the work suggests that hope is often most visible in the act of carrying something fragile through darkness without allowing it to disappear.
Hope Seems Fragile In This Dark
48" × 36"
Oil on Canvas
2025
Part of the Oracles collection.
A young figure stands beside a pale, tree-like form while an elegantly dressed woman extends a hand above him. Resting in the child's palms is the skull of a small bird, a delicate remnant held with unusual care. The surrounding darkness isolates the figures and heightens the tension between tenderness and unease, while the graceful gesture above them suggests guidance, protection, or control that remains open to interpretation.
Created as part of the Oracles series, the painting examines how identity is shaped by the systems, relationships, and expectations that surround us in early life. Throughout the collection, recurring symbols such as trees, birds, hands, and fragmented forms become reflections on belonging, vulnerability, authority, and the ways meaning is inherited, imposed, or reclaimed.
Hope Seems Fragile In This Dark reflects on the persistence of hope when confronted with loss, uncertainty, and influence beyond one's control. The bird's skull becomes both a symbol of what has been damaged and a reminder of what once sang. Rather than offering simple optimism, the work suggests that hope is often most visible in the act of carrying something fragile through darkness without allowing it to disappear.