This is a painting created from The Deck of Queen's Book : the coffee table book version of the deck.
 
Mediums: paint, pen, sharpie on collaged pages from the book.
Original piece: photography merged into digital art.
 
THE ROSE
 
Preciousness, Presence, Honor
 
Roses are presented in the lightest and darkest moments, to sit in silence. As if they watch over using silence, to grow...to wither... to die. They appear in fairy tales as well as nightmares - as a gift or as a curse. Their thorns cut into things and their pedals are awed at. They are themselves... light and dark.
 
This Queen comes to you in silence and with a short life. She hands the time she has left, to sit with you in honor. No matter how the times are in this moment, she dedicates her life to you, so that you can sit with yourself and honor every ounce of you. The light, the dark... The victories, the falls... Your thorns, to your beautiful pedals... Every crevice and curve of you.
She comes forward to dedicate her life, to the human that you are. Without words, without others... Just you with you.
 
This Queen asks you: to take time, to honor every ounce of you.