“Estelle: Enduring Grace” captures a luminous portrait of the artist’s mother, Estelle, at age twenty-four. Painted in acrylic and oil on canvas, the piece honors a moment from the late 1950s, when Estelle worked in the engineering college photolab at the University of Florida in Gainesville. Serving as a model while new film and photographic equipment were tested, she unknowingly became part of a lasting story about resilience, love, and discovery. Behind her, a richly patterned backdrop of Tahitian hibiscus and Pitcairn pinwheel motifs, printed on handmade Japanese paper and applied with gel medium, evokes the layered complexity of memory and heritage. Fluent in English and French, the future mother of six children, Estelle’s enduring spirit shines through — a quiet testament to grace, strength, and the unseen beauty within everyday life.