Rising from Ashes

This piece draws from the myth of the Phoenix - a creature of flame and rebirth, whose end is never truly an end. The central form suggests a feather mid-transformation: molten, splintered, yet rising. Embedded in ash, as if each mark remembers both destruction and renewal. The surface bears a story of a ruin - not hidden, but embraced. Texture becomes testimony and in the tension between decay and emergence, the Phoenix does not soar, not yet - but one can feel the lift beginning. This is not a return to what was. This is something new entirely, born of what had to burn.