Title: Courage To Unfold

Size: 36 x 48 inches

Acrylic on Canvas

Price: $3200 (plus tax)

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THE STORY BEHIND THE ART

This piece feels like the moment just before a flower opens — the pause filled with potential. There is movement here, but it is subtle. A gentle unfolding across the canvas, layer by layer, as if something long held is finally allowing itself to breathe.

The horizontal textures stretch like a landscape at dawn. Light begins to gather. Nothing rushes. Nothing forces. The courage here is patient.

The palette is soft, luminous, almost whispering. It feels like trust. Like the decision to show up fully, even if you’re not certain what will meet you. There is a tenderness in the way the layers overlap — as though each one is protecting the next, guiding it into the light.

“Courage to Unfold” is not about dramatic transformation. It’s about permission. Permission to grow at your own pace. Permission to expand without apology. Permission to soften and still be strong.

When you sit with this painting, you feel the quiet bravery of vulnerability. The strength it takes to open after being closed. The resilience required to stretch toward something new.

The composition holds a beautiful tension — grounded yet ascending, stable yet reaching. It mirrors the internal process of growth: messy, layered, imperfect, and deeply human.

This work feels like an invitation. To trust your becoming. To honor the parts of you that are still forming. To remember that unfolding is not a performance — it is a process.

And in that process, there is profound courage.

• Only one that exists in the world

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• It will make your other walls jealous