This piece was born from an October walk around Spider Lake, where the rhythm of moving through the landscape became a quiet meditation. To push my creative boundaries, I stepped away from literal representation and leaned into abstraction, layering hand-painted papers and collage elements to capture the feeling of the place rather than its exact form.

The process challenged me to work more intuitively—to trust gesture, texture, and composition as a way of holding memory. While rooted in a specific moment, the piece speaks to a broader, shared experience: the way time in nature with those we love can settle