Fall From Grace

“Still falling, still reaching.”

A purple cat submerged in bubbles and liquid, with a background of purple and blue bubbles.

What's Happened?

A person inside a glass with condensation and bubbles, seen through the glass with pink and purple lighting.

Fall From Grace

The Plunge

Close-up of a purple and pink abstract surface with numerous bubbles.

Life changes in an instant, grief, shock, and acceptance tangle together in Fall From Grace. This triptych captures hands mid-motion, suspended between reaching and retreating.

What remains when the fall is over, but I’m still not whole?

  • Fall From Grace is a triptych that captures the emotional impact of sudden, life-altering events. The work is rooted in experiences of crisis, when trauma strikes without warning, leaving both body and faith shaken.

    In What’s Happened?, the hand is frozen in shock, reflecting the disbelief that follows unexpected loss. Fall From Grace descends further, the gesture heavy and withdrawn, mirroring the emotional weight of realizing things won’t return to how they were. The Plunge completes the arc, as the hand blurs and fades, signaling surrender, not in defeat, but in exhaustion.

    The subdued palette of greys and purples emphasizes the numbness of grief. For the artist, this work isn’t about recovery, it’s about the rupture. It asks: when life fractures without warning, how do we carry what’s left?

  • Grief doesn’t wait for permission. It arrives unannounced, fracturing peace, halting momentum, and dragging us into places we never expected to be. In Fall From Grace, suspended hands mirror our own helplessness in the face of sudden loss. There is no control here, only surrender.

    And yet, Scripture reminds us that God draws near to the brokenhearted. Even in the confusion, even in the descent, He is present, not always with answers, but always with presence. The pain may feel too deep to move through, but we are not abandoned in it.

    God’s promise isn’t that we’ll avoid the fall, it’s that He’ll meet us at the bottom, carry us when we can’t rise, and remind us that even in our collapse, we are not lost to Him.

    “My flesh and my heart may fail, but God is the strength of my heart and my portion forever.” Psalm 73:26

    Reflection Question:

    Where in your pain are you still trying to stand on your own, and what would it look like to let God carry you instead?

  • Workshops: Art-making on loss, collapse, and recovery.

    Therapeutic/Educational: Training on sudden trauma and grief; relevant for addressing shock, disorientation, and emotional paralysis.

    Community Dialogue: Conversations on failure, fragility, and grace.

    Youth Engagement: Projects exploring setbacks and resilience.

    Wellness Spaces: Reflection prompts on collapse, surrender, and hope.