The Enlighten Forest

This painting emerged from an act of erasure — a moment of surrender.
After a long battle with a work that refused to reveal its truth, I covered it entirely in black.
That darkness was not an ending, but a threshold.

From within it, a new vision began to rise — quiet, deliberate, and sacred.
Forms took shape like souls reborn, slender and luminous, standing as both trees and beings —
witnesses of survival, guardians of silence, carriers of light.
Each figure holds a glow, a memory, a breath —
together they form a forest of the enlightened,
a grove that remembers what was lost yet chooses to shine.

“The Forest of the Enlightened” is not about triumph or defeat,
but about the moment after — when the ashes settle,
and what remains decides to stand,
to glow,
to be.