Lunar Escape

Held by the Moon: The Story Behind Lunar Escape

When I created Lunar Escape, I wasn’t just painting a figure—I was painting a feeling. I wanted to capture a moment of stillness that holds more than quiet: serenity, gratitude, and a deep, undeniable sense of belonging. These emotions lived in me as I worked, and they found form in the woman’s expression, her posture, and the way her body seems to breathe in rhythm with the moonlit water around her.

In this piece, the moon, water, and woman are not separate—they echo one another. Each element reflects and holds the others in balance. That unity was important to me. I’ve often felt that real strength comes not from force, but from alignment. When we are in sync with the world around us—its tides, its cycles, its silences—we begin to remember who we are. We belong.

The moon’s soft luminance reveals the woman’s contours gently, not to spotlight her, but to include her—as if she’s always been there, a part of the night sky’s quiet wisdom. In that light, she isn’t just seen. She’s known. She’s free. Lunar Escape is about that kind of freedom—the freedom that comes from knowing yourself and letting that self exist in harmony with everything else.

This painting is a celebration of unity and identity, but also peace—the kind that doesn’t demand attention, just presence. It draws from something universal, but also personal and culturally rooted. It’s an offering, an invitation: to return to nature, to listen inward, and to see yourself as part of something vast and beautiful.

Lunar Escape

She drifts beneath the hush of moonlight,
not hiding,
but resting in the knowledge
that she belongs here—
among tides and shadows,
among stars that do not ask her name.

The water does not question her stillness.
It cradles her reflection
like a sister returned
from too many wars—
the kind that leave no scars,
just silence in the ribs.

Her face lifts gently
toward the lunar pull—
not to escape the earth,
but to remember
she too
was made of night and salt.

Everything holds her.
The sky,
the curve of her own shoulder,
the hush between waves.
Nothing needs her to perform.
She breathes, and that is enough.

In this place,
gratitude moves without sound.
It lives in her spine,
glows faintly at the edge of her being—
a quiet rebellion
against the need to prove.

And so she stays—
not to leave,
but to become.
The moon watches.
The sea listens.
And she is finally part of the story.

Giclée Stretched Canvas Print:Giclee print on museum quality 410gsm polycotton canvas. Stretched on 1.5 inch pine wood and back wire. Ready to hang
Acrylic Print:1/8 (3mm) thick Digital grade Acrylic with back floating Frame of 1 inch thick. Ready to hang
Brushed Metal Print:3mm Brushed Metal Print with back floating Frame of 1 inch thick. Ready to hang
HD Sublimation Metal Print:High Gloss Sublimation on Chromalux Panel with back floating Frame of 1 inch thick. Ready to hang
Giclée Rolled Canvas Print:Giclee print on museum quality 410gsm polycotton canvas
Giclée Poster Satin Photo Paper Print:Giclee print on Resin coated Satin Photo Paper 240gsm
Giclée Fine Art Matte Paper Print:Giclee print on Fine Art Matte Paper
Framed Print:Mounted with Plexiglass and Frame. Ready to hang.