A thorny flower bush frames a glimpse of home, the house representing family, the thorns, life’s inevitable challenges.

The beauty of this piece lives in that tension, the idea that looking at life through its difficulties can reveal that the answers we seek have been within us all along.

The night sky, the flowing water, and the quiet presence of a bridge all came from a desire to capture the feeling that problems are not permanent. The moon sits in the darkness not as a symbol of night, but of resolution,

a reminder that today’s struggle may not follow us into tomorrow.