my heart is a lotus flower

My Heart Is a Lotus Flower explores the duality between tenderness and survival. Through experiences of pain, fear, and suffering, the heart transforms into a lotus flower—delicate in nature, yet capable of surviving and blooming within difficult conditions. Its softness is not untouched by hardship; it exists alongside the fear and protective instincts that developed in response to it.

The work uses layered textures, saturated colors, and organic forms to construct an emotional landscape where beauty, vulnerability, fear, and protection grow together. The lotus becomes a metaphor for a heart that has adapted to pain without allowing that pain to harden it, preserving its capacity for tenderness while learning how to survive.