Child holding a bird skull beside a woman in a white dress against a dark background, symbolic oil painting on canvas.
Child holding a bird skull beside a woman in a white dress against a dark background, symbolic oil painting on canvas.

Hope Seems Fragile In This Dark

$14,700.00

Hope Seems Fragile In This Dark

48" × 36"

Oil on Canvas

2025

Part of the Oracles collection.

We are often led away from ourselves before we understand that anything is being lost. In youth, trust can make guidance feel inseparable from truth, especially when it comes from those whose approval shapes our sense of safety.

Awareness arrives slowly. What once seemed like growth begins to reveal its cost, and the parts of us that were once open and instinctive start to feel unfamiliar. By the time we recognize the change, we may already be mourning something we never knew we were allowed to keep.

Hope becomes fragile in that moment because it asks us to believe that loss does not have to become destiny. We cannot return to who we were before those forces shaped us, but we can begin to understand what happened and decide what should be carried forward.

Hope Seems Fragile In This Dark

48" × 36"

Oil on Canvas

2025

Part of the Oracles collection.

We are often led away from ourselves before we understand that anything is being lost. In youth, trust can make guidance feel inseparable from truth, especially when it comes from those whose approval shapes our sense of safety.

Awareness arrives slowly. What once seemed like growth begins to reveal its cost, and the parts of us that were once open and instinctive start to feel unfamiliar. By the time we recognize the change, we may already be mourning something we never knew we were allowed to keep.

Hope becomes fragile in that moment because it asks us to believe that loss does not have to become destiny. We cannot return to who we were before those forces shaped us, but we can begin to understand what happened and decide what should be carried forward.