This painting depicts how the difficult and hard things we experience in our lives, in some strange way all work together to create beauty in our lives, if we allow them to shape us, and look for the good amongst the hard.

Recently, I revised this painting by incorporating the lyrics of Gungors' song "Beautiful Things". It reflected not only the thoughts in my mind as I created this piece but also my creative process of using many different textures and elements, forming them together to make something beautiful.

(Gungors' "Beautiful Things" partial lyrics)

All around, Hope is springing up from this old ground

Out of chaos life is being found, in you.

You make beautiful things, You make beautiful things out of us

Oh, You make beautiful things, You make beautiful things out of dust.