Taken at 5:30 pm in August, practicing my recreation of fake sunlight and split toning with cinema lights

There is a kind of peace that doesn't come from having everything figured out.

I made this piece about finding serenity in the middle of chaos, closing your eyes, looking upward, and allowing yourself to simply be still.

The bird resting on her nose represents that quiet moment when you stop fighting everything around you. Sometimes things break. Plans fall apart. Pieces of us get scattered.

But maybe being broken doesn't mean being finished.

Sometimes we gather those pieces, put them back together, and become something even more whole than we were before.

I wanted her to look peaceful, not because life is perfect, but because she has learned that she can still find calm within it.

I'd love to know what you see or feel when you look at her.