Before the Climb

43 x 57 x 4 in . 35 lbs . Plaster, hand-sculpted clay flowers, mirror, crushed glass, resin . 2026

This piece is for the moment you sit down on the mountain and wonder if you can keep going.

Everything around you feels like dry rock. Hard, hot, unforgiving. Your strength is leaving. Your next step is

unclear. You came so far and suddenly you are not sure you have what it takes to finish.

Then you see it - a crack in the surface. And from what should be impossible ground, the most delicate flowers

have pushed through. Not one. Many. Each one sculpted by hand, painted, placed one by one. Beneath them,

the power of life shines through from within.

If they can grow here - in this - so can you.

Where there is will, there is a way. Always.