This is not a simple painting. While creating it, the music “Goodbye Brother” by Ramin Djawadi was constantly playing in my mind. This painting came from somewhere deep inside me, from an emotion that overflowed and found its way onto the canvas. It was born in the moment I stood beside my sister’s bed, as she quietly left this world. That moment felt like a door opening, toward something unknown, something close to nirvana: strange, conflicted, and beyond explanation. Beautiful, yet deadly. Calm, yet deeply unsettling. Full of paradox. Everything was filled with color, and I could feel her connection to another world, yet at the same time it felt as if I were falling into the darkest black hole myself… The door that opened for me in that moment changed the way I see existence forever. Over these past months, I turned all of my emotions into words and paintings, and in doing so, I transformed a great sorrow into art. * Medium: Acrylic painting on cardboard, mixed media * physical painting