There’s a moment in the process where something shifts. Not because it’s easy — but because it’s time. Emergence is about that choice. The decision to stop shrinking. To stop apologizing. To stop holding the truest parts of yourself back.

This piece doesn’t pretend to be clean or resolved. It’s layered with tension. With contrast. With emotion that had nowhere else to go. The boldness you see isn’t decoration — it’s release. It’s all the parts that were once hidden, finally given permission to take up space.

Emergence is part of the Spread Your Wings series — a body of work that honors the real, raw, layered journey of becoming. For the collector who sees transformation not as a perfect arc, but as an ongoing act of courage.

This is what it looks like when you stop hiding. This is what it feels like to come home to yourself.