Echeveria

This season brings back fond memories. The echeverias my grandfather had carefully nurtured over the years spread out to encompass the concrete wall separating the house from the street. My grandfather was a warm and meticulous man with a passion for gardening and coin collecting. And this South American native succulent, Echeveria, grows best in the warm spring.

The girl surrounded by such spring light and lush echeverias. I expresses the beauty and transience of the changing seasons and her feelings for her late grandfather. Her translucent skin reminds one of the fresh spring breeze, and the lush echeveria reminds one of the warmth of her grandfather's love. Furthermore, the light shining from right to left represents opposites: life and death. The right side symbolizes life, while the left side symbolizes death.

The unfinished white tattoo on the girl's back represents hope for a future yet to be seen. I painted this picture in the hope that those who walk through life with this picture will also have a bright future.