"This painting is part of an ongoing effort I call Inner Garden Portraits, rooted in what I’ve learned through disability, caregiving, and personal healing. I believe we each carry an inner garden — a place where our own version of joy and calmness is always growing. When we connect to that space, even in the midst of grief or hardship, we meet our strength and recharge with hope. Through shared, judgment-free conversation, I help others rediscover that place. Together, we find their seed moments — the truths that still live inside them — and I discover them layer by layer, into an abstracted, fluid visual form intuitively. Each painting becomes a reflection of our shared purpose: to honor their light, their worthiness, and the resilience that never left; to find new possibilities. In doing so, we begin to recognize how deeply personal stories speak to something universal — a reminder that we are never alone in what we carry or hope to grow. In this story, I heard not only the grief from illness survival, family loss, but also a quiet resilience — the choice to keep moving, to keep loving, and to keep blooming supported by the community that holds us when we need it most with bursting energy. This garden holds memory, motion, and purpose. It reflects how we can continue to offer light to others even as we heal, remembering how to stay grounded, yet expansive. May it remind us: we are still here. We are held by one another. We get to keep going. We get to find glimpses of joy amid what is challenging. And in choosing to bloom, we make space for others to bloom too."

- Juliana Alonso

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