War Garden Series

The War Garden series grew out of an earlier body of work I called Visions of Bloom. Back then, I saw them as Garden Goddesses—pieces born from the sacred, simple ritual of tending the earth. Every evening, the garden was my grounding. It was where I went to commune with the soil, to nurture growth, and to find a rare kind of solace in the slow, quiet rhythms of the dirt. For a long time, it was the only place where peace felt truly possible.

But eventually, the stillness of that sanctuary began to crack.

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As the world outside grew heavier—thick with violence, division, and a shared sense of unrest—the garden could no longer stay silent. The refuge I built was suddenly crowded by the very thoughts, anxieties, and grief I was trying to outrun. The garden shifted. It became a contested space where beauty and dread lived side-by-side.

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The War Garden series was born from that friction. These paintings live in the collision between nurturing and destruction, between hope and the weight of despair. They are visual laments—meditations on the fact that even our most sacred spaces aren't immune to the world’s heaviness. They stand as a witness to the struggle, holding onto the grit and the quiet endurance it takes to remain rooted when the world feels like it’s pulling us apart.