Still Here

“The choice we make to be there for others is the very one we have long owed ourselves."

There is a quiet imbalance in the way we give love, how easily it flows outward and how hesitantly it turns inward. This painting rests in that realization, shaped by moments of offering everything to others while leaving little behind for oneself. It carries both fragility and strength, the understanding that survival itself can be a form of care. To still be here is not something small, it is something deeply earned.