Initially, this painting began from my love for nature and the desire to paint it in a paradisiacal way. But over the course of working on it, inspiration was gained, thoughts shifted and the meaning was born. This piece was inspired by the cruelty of this world…it was my own little way of grieving innocent children across the world that have been forcefully taken away by the hands of war, chaos and starvation. I wanted to create a visual consolation that conveys eternal peace…a kind of peace unknown to any man that holds breath. This painting shares the belief that although they may have died gruesome deaths, they now exist in a place more beautiful, peaceful and abundant than the life we know here on earth. They are at rest. To go a little further, I decided to tell a story about how they died. The body of the boy on the left shows signs of starvation in his past life, and the blood on the face of the other boy indicates a fatal injury to his head caused by the bombing of his home during a war.