2025
Goodbye!  The Closing of the Year of the Snake
20"x20"
$1250
 
She is not hopeful.
She is not resolved.
She is here.
 
This guide stands at the exact moment between what has been survived and what has not yet begun.

The cigarette is not indulgence — it is a pause.
The fur slipping from her shoulder is not excess — it is shedding.
The snake necklace rests lightly, not to constrict, but to remember:
you outgrew an old skin and didn’t rush to replace it.
Her glasses are dark because the future does not need to be seen yet.
Only felt.
 
The palette — Aperol heat, ember pinks, bruised reds — holds the residue of a year lived fully and imperfectly.

There is beauty here, but it is earned beauty.
The kind that comes after truth.
 
Her message:
You do not need to reinvent yourself.
You only need to arrive.
Carry forward what is real.
Leave behind what was performative.
Step into 2025 without apology, without urgency, without costume.
This is not the beginning.
This is the handoff.