Powerful matriarch

This piece is about prioritizing family before everything. To best represent leading your life choices with your family's best interest first, I chose to embellish a coyote skull with wildflowers, but mostly bumblenees. Why ? Symbolically, the bumblebee represents the perfect alignment of community responsibility and family devotion. Their annual lifecycle and intense cooperative habits make them powerful archetypes but most of all, the selfless matriarch in charge of the group embodies wonderfully the  hard working mothers out there. The queen symbolizes fierce maternal devotion, enduring isolation to single-handedly build a sanctuary for her lineage. Thank you Julie for sharing your personal growth and I hope you love this piece.

This piece is one of the thirty (30) pieces I created for the growth collection. This collection focuses on growth, represented by florals. It’s about learning from failures, adapting & embracing challenges. 

For the first time ever, this collection is a collaboration between my patrons, followers, and me. In May 2026, I asked anyone interested to share with me an ability, value, purpose or mindset that they were working on or recently acquired, demonstrating their personal growth and healing. I was absolutely grateful from all the responses I got and the inspiration came overflowing. Based on personal growth and healing, I think we collectively changed.

Personal growth is wonderful, collective growth is magical and I believe in sharing our journeys and uplifting each other.

Thank you to everyone who shared a slice of their growth and healing journey, you are truly wonderful and keep inspiring me. 

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