Mother of Nations is a portrait born out of trepidation, renewal, and the courage to face the past with open hands. Painted across several years, it carries the weight of spiritual journeying—through brokenness, forgiveness, and the freedom of becoming whole.

Her presence emerged gradually, as if stepping from another time into a new season. The gardenia crowning her head symbolizes clarity, purity, and renewal—its fragrance carrying forgiveness and hope. Dark tones rise into light across her face and chest, speaking of soul wounds being lifted into healing. Threads of metallic gold shimmer through her neck and adornment, representing wisdom, divine radiance, and the Spirit’s upward flow of joy.

The eyes anchor her. Strong yet sensitive, they convey trust and connection—inviting the viewer into her story, into their own story. She is a figure of transformation: once hidden, now revealed. She carries both the seriousness of one who has endured and the softness of one who forgives and dreams again.

This work reflects my own unfolding—learning to stand in freedom, to let God’s light touch hidden places, and to step forward without repeating the past. Mother of Nations is both deeply personal and universal: a testament that renewal is possible, that we are not the same as we once were, and that in the divine hands of love, every story can be transformed.30