Original artwork description:

Title: Beautiful Bane 02
Medium: Heavy Textured Oil Pastels on Paper
Size: 35 x 47 inches
Important Note: The frame shown in the image is for presentation only. The artwork will be delivered unframed, allowing you to choose a frame that best suits your space and style.

“What harms us also shapes us.”

Beautiful Bane 02 is part of a bold and emotionally charged series that transforms inner turmoil into powerful visual form. Born from the tension between pain and resilience, this work reflects how grief, fear, rejection, and anger—often hidden beneath the surface—can ultimately shape and strengthen us.

This piece doesn’t seek to simply portray suffering. Instead, it reveals the dynamic energy of emotion—how it moves through the body, takes shape on paper, and becomes a force of creation. It is an abstracted emotional landscape, where every mark is both a wound and a breakthrough.

Throughout Beautiful Bane, recurring floral forms emerge—not as literal blossoms, but as metaphors for human emotion. These are not soft, ornamental florals; they are bold, abstracted, and defiant. Scarred by memory and shaped by experience, they bloom as acts of emotional survival—symbols of what endures.

Each curve, line, and petal becomes a vessel for transformation—illustrating the complex beauty that can rise from pain.

Materials used:

acrylic paint, oil pastel, paper

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