War Garden Series

The War Garden series emerged from an earlier body of work titled Visions of Bloom, originally conceived as Garden Goddesses—a series inspired by the sacred ritual of tending a garden. Evening after evening, the garden became a place of grounding and communion: hands in the soil, nurturing growth, and finding solace in the quiet rhythms of nature. It was a sanctuary where peace and connection to the earth felt possible.

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Over time, however, the stillness of that sanctuary began to fracture. As the condition of the world grew increasingly heavy—marked by violence, division, and collective unrest—the quiet of the garden could no longer remain untouched. What once offered refuge became permeated by unrelenting thoughts, anxieties, and grief that refused to be silenced. The garden transformed from a place of peace into a contested space where beauty and dread coexisted.

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From this tension, the War Garden series was born. These three paintings are rooted in that internal conflict—the collision between nurture and destruction, hope and despair. They stand as visual laments: meditations on how even our most sacred spaces are not immune to the weight of the world, yet still hold the capacity to bear witness, to grieve, and to endure.