She emerges as both woman and grove, her form woven into roots and branches, spiraling upward in a dance older than memory. This is rewilding as both return and revelation – a return to herself, to her spirit in communion with the living world, to the archetypal Wild Woman within. It is a return through what was forgotten, and a revelation of all that was hidden beneath forgetting. She is unbound, unashamed, embodied in her deepest truth. She is Persephone unchained, Artemis unbound, Diana unmasked – yet she is older than any name. She is the first rhythm of life stirring within the dark soil, the pulse of sap lifting into bloom. Her dance follows spiral pathways of memory and renewal, woven into each knotted root and curling frond of foliage. It is an invocation of freedom – unbound and unashamed. She carries within her the memory of descent, the stillness where truth revealed itself, and rises now in her becoming, in the radiant wholeness of her wild being. Her power is neither force nor conquest; it is wisdom, not weight. It is the fierce harmony of being wholly integrated within herself and the living world. This painting speaks to the joyous freedom of casting off expectations and restrictions – those imposed by society, by family, by relationships, and by self. It speaks to the moment when you are done with falling in line and hiding your truths. It is the realization that your authentic self is not only worthy of expression but is a necessary and integral part of the great dance of life.