Soft Hands Make Strong Claws explores softness as a form of resilience, challenging the notion that tenderness implies weakness. It redefines deliberation, care, and ornamentation as strategies for enduring instability, insisting that persistence is not always forceful but can be quiet, meticulous, and intentional. The work examines how individuals sustain themselves in uncertain times, suggesting that adaptation and tenderness hold radical potential. In a world where exhaustion threatens to take hold, it asserts that what is carefully built, layered, and adorned is not merely decorative—it is enduring.