“The Bloom Between Us” reflects the way love has appeared throughout the artist’s life — not through searching or swiping, but through organic encounters that arrived precisely in the moments she needed them. For years, she mistook those connections for love, only to recognize later that they were lessons in disguise — mirrors revealing the tenderness and attention she still owed herself. The piece remembers that she never had to be perfect to begin anything real. Life has always met the artist exactly where she stood, laying the next brick the moment she was willing to move. The spirals, hearts, and budding forms echo the truth that connection grows most honestly when she shows up as she is — unpolished, sincere, and becoming. This artwork is a reminder to her, and to anyone who sees themselves in it, that beginnings don’t require perfection. They ask only for presence. Real love — the kind that aligns — always knows how to meet her in the middle of her becoming.