This body of work is inspired by the awareness that love and heart are ever-present in both light and shadow. Allowing one's self to flow, without judgement of either or of the many directions our extraordinary earth experience takes us, is an opportunity to become a life fully lived. Whether in illumination or darkness, what is revealed is that love is inseparable from the heart, It emerges as radiance when unobstructed and as ache when challenged. The two are not opposites but reflections of the same origin: the heart's insistence on meaning, connection and aliveness. These pieces unfolded as reverence to the beautiful contrast which dwells within each of us.