17 - PIECES TO PEACE

This painting is about the peace that arrives when you know where you are exactly meant to be.

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I had finally arrived at a place where I could create a life of my own. Pieces to Peace is what followed. The settling, the warmth. The deep peace of knowing that the hardest work was done and the life ahead was now mine to live.

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I painted a woman sitting exactly in this moment. She sits in the warmth of the sun, face lifted, barefoot and completely at ease. The sea stretches open before her. The future is unknown, but for the first time it doesn't feel like uncertainty. It feels like freedom.

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The pieces of the past remain scattered behind her, but they no longer tell her who she is today.

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For me, this is what peace feels like. Not the absence of the past, but the choice to no longer be defined by it. And the knowledge I can now live a life based on who I truly am.

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