- Original painting, framed in poplar wood
- Materials – Pastels, acrylic and natural pigments on raw canvas
- Size – 48x30 in
A note from the artist "I made this collection of work in the spring, after the Palisades Fire. Our house and studio made it through, though we were displaced for a month. We were very lucky to come home since some of our neighbors lost theirs. The view across the canyon– once thick with trees– had been completely stripped bare. For a long time, I carried a quiet anxiety, a kind of breath held. But then, in March, something shifted. I remember a soft exhale, the first one in a while. I felt like I could dream again. I could feel light again. At the same time, the black hills across from us, scorched and silent for months, began to green. Small things– tender shoots, shy buds– started to unfurl. Life, working underground in the quiet dark, was beginning again and in a soft yet vibrant way.
This collection is an observation on that kind of growth: how beauty rises out of stillness, how beginnings often arrive quietly. It’s about cycles and earth’s eternal well of creation. A hopeful happiness." ~ Danielle Hutchens