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"Kindled in the Light" [No.6]

$3,400.00

Original - No. 6 (Acceptance)

“Threads of Solace: Layers of Grief” Collection

48×48 in. - Acrylic on 1.5in. Gallery-Wrapped Cotton Canvas

“Kindled in the Light” is the sixth and last work in a series exploring the emotional phases of grief, inspired by the artist’s personal experience with loss. This work serves as an artistic interpretation of acceptance, the sixth and most profound stage of grief. Reflecting its significance as a difficult but essential phase, this is the largest canvas in the entire collection. It reframes loss not as a temporary condition to be overcome, but as a permanent, interwoven thread in the evolving landscape of the self, translating this emotional process of healing into tangible, persistent natural form.

The core visual concept is an immersive study of synthesis painted from the unique perspective of standing underneath a dense tree canopy and looking upward into the sky. The initial darkness, representing the weight of memory and shadow-covered roots, establishes the foundational sorrow. The gradual shift toward acceptance is marked by the heart’s learned ability to find solace in the subtle, quiet moments - the stillness in nature and the comforting warmth of the light filtering through the canopy, serving as an anchor in a world that is daunting in its capacity and constant.

Each piece includes a certificate of authenticity, a personal artist statement, and a dedicated poem written to echo its emotional core.

Original - No. 6 (Acceptance)

“Threads of Solace: Layers of Grief” Collection

48×48 in. - Acrylic on 1.5in. Gallery-Wrapped Cotton Canvas

“Kindled in the Light” is the sixth and last work in a series exploring the emotional phases of grief, inspired by the artist’s personal experience with loss. This work serves as an artistic interpretation of acceptance, the sixth and most profound stage of grief. Reflecting its significance as a difficult but essential phase, this is the largest canvas in the entire collection. It reframes loss not as a temporary condition to be overcome, but as a permanent, interwoven thread in the evolving landscape of the self, translating this emotional process of healing into tangible, persistent natural form.

The core visual concept is an immersive study of synthesis painted from the unique perspective of standing underneath a dense tree canopy and looking upward into the sky. The initial darkness, representing the weight of memory and shadow-covered roots, establishes the foundational sorrow. The gradual shift toward acceptance is marked by the heart’s learned ability to find solace in the subtle, quiet moments - the stillness in nature and the comforting warmth of the light filtering through the canopy, serving as an anchor in a world that is daunting in its capacity and constant.

Each piece includes a certificate of authenticity, a personal artist statement, and a dedicated poem written to echo its emotional core.

 

Dedicated Poem:

This poem functions as the internal emotional narrative for the painting, where canvas captures the physical perspective and environment of the acceptance phase, the poem maps the subtle, ongoing process of the heart’s internal listening. It translates the artwork’s visual elements - the entangling roots, the settling loam, and the protective canopy - into continuous mediation on resilience. The poem is not a summary of the art, but its companion, charting the moment when sorrow and sunlight are permitted to coexist, finding the grace necessary to begin anew.

Whispered shadows cradle memory’s ache,

as the world breathes willingly,

where still, the roots entwine with sorrow,

yet branches reach out with purpose,

a new growth, kindled in the light.

Grief settles in the loam,

woven through the earth’s tapestry,

never vanished,

but softened by the hush of leaves.

And as the solace settles in the air,

the heart learns to listen -

to the hush between birdsong,

to the warmth that spills through canopy,

to the wonder that persists

even as the absence lingers.

It is not forgetting,

but standing in the dappled gleam,

letting sorrow and sunlight

share the same breath -

finding, in the quiet cover,

the courage to start again

and the grace to remember.