Portrait beneath a stag beetle against a dark background, symbolic oil painting exploring resilience, transformation, vulnerability, and endurance.
Portrait beneath a stag beetle against a dark background, symbolic oil painting exploring resilience, transformation, vulnerability, and endurance.

Love Did Not Soften The Blade

$3,700.00

Love Did Not Soften The Blade

24" × 18"

Oil on wood

2025

Part of the Oracles collection.

Love Did Not Soften The Blade reflects on the difficult truth that love alone does not remove hardship from human experience. Affection, devotion, and care may offer meaning, but they do not necessarily eliminate struggle or loss. Instead, the painting suggests that love changes the way hardship is carried.

Love Did Not Soften The Blade

24" × 18"

Oil on wood

2025

Part of the Oracles collection.

Love Did Not Soften The Blade reflects on the difficult truth that love alone does not remove hardship from human experience. Affection, devotion, and care may offer meaning, but they do not necessarily eliminate struggle or loss. Instead, the painting suggests that love changes the way hardship is carried.