36 × 36x 1.5 original acrylic painting on canvas.

From the ashes beneath my skin, to the barefoot child still gathering stories in the woods…
I promise to paint you later.

Over and over and over again.

In all your glorious unearthed forms.

I’ll help us re-member…

And I will continue to paint us into power.

This began as a painting for little me and now belongs to all the Ash Born.
for all of us who remember the scorch yet choose to bloom anyway.
This is the returning of the heart that once bent to survive,
the soft animal of innocence reclaiming its own worth,
the ancient knowing that love has never been something to earn.

I will paint every single shape you trusted the dark to hold.