What began as a celebration of nature — lush, paradisiacal, abundant — became something far weightier as the work evolved. This painting is a meditation on the cruelty of the world, a lament for its injustices and a tribute to the innocent children taken by war, chaos, and starvation. The figures carry the traces of their earthly lives: one bears the signs of hunger, the other the mark of a fatal wound. In offering them this garden, this piece extends a kind of visual consolation — an imagining of peace so complete it exceeds anything known to those who yet draw breath. A realm beyond human understanding, more beautiful and abundant than the world that failed them