"The Reckoning" mentor Trusting the hands that hold

Trusting the hands that hold her

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"The Reckoning" mentor Trusting the hands that hold30x30 Acrylic on Canvas This piece does not plead. It does not yield. It stands unshaken, meeting the dark with an unrelenting fire. The shadow here is not a wound, it is an adversary, a force that presses in, daring her to falter. But she does not. She fights back, not with desperation, but with certainty. Her strength is not performative, it is lived, earned, honed in the furnace of experience. The weight of what was meant to break her only sharpens