"Face to Face"

There comes a moment when we can no longer hide behind roles, explanations or appearances. The moment when we meet ourselves for real. Not the image, not who we think we should be, but who we are when all that is left is us.

This gaze inward is not always comfortable. Sometimes it reveals old pain, fears or parts of ourselves still longing for love. Yet it is precisely there, in that exposed and tender place, that a new understanding begins to unfold.

Looking within is not criticism, it is compassion. It is the ability to see all that we are, even the parts we liked less, even the ones we tried to hide. To stop filtering, to stop choosing only what is pretty or right, and instead to love it all as it is.

Because only when we love all that we are, including what is fragile, confused, stubborn or imperfect, can we truly be free.

Such love means it is okay to be who we are, exactly as we are right now, without conditions and without the need to change.

There is a moment when we stand before ourselves, face to face, and realize that the way home begins with love for every part within us.

This painting is an invitation to love what is, to breathe into what exists without changing a thing, and to meet ourselves with honesty and presence.

The painting is part of the series “Layers”, which explores the process of revealing our inner truth.

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