Lingering Pain

An original 18x24 painting that explores the quiet grief of losing the future you once believed in. After a life-altering event turns your world upside down, the hardest moments often come later—when time has moved on and the weight of it all finally settles in. With that clarity comes a painful awareness: truths you once held tightly begin to unravel, revealing themselves as illusions.

Each hand in the piece represents a different fragment of that lost reality—the beliefs that proved untrue and the futures that will never come to pass. Even as time softens the initial shock, the ache of that loss lingers. It returns in unexpected moments, a reminder that grieving isn’t just about what was, but also about what could have been.