Ace of Hearts, Redbud
2021, collage, spray paint, lace, acrylic on panel, 24 x 20”

Spring in New York City after 2020 felt almost unreal. The redbuds burst into bloom like they had something to prove—wild sprays of pink that stopped me mid-step. That year, everything was sharper. The blossoms more electric. The light more tender. This painting came from walking those streets, turning corners and finding trees fully alive again, just when we needed it.

There’s something about that pink—the way it doesn’t apologize for taking up space, for being beautiful, for being here. Ace of Hearts, Redbud is about that moment when the world reminds you: we’re still growing. Still reaching. Still making something new from everything we’ve just been through.

This is spring as declaration. As color. As hope returning to the body.

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