Ember Petal

This A4 abstract painting, created with alcohol ink and gold leaf on Yupo paper, evokes the intimate unfolding of a flower caught in the act of becoming. Ribbons of rose, blush, and crimson sweep sensuously across the surface. The golden leafing at the base glows with a quiet authority — like soil gilded by light or a memory pressed in metal.
The organic shapes hint at petals mid-furl, a bloom blushing in warm light, or the slow exhale of a heart opening. Fluid, radiant, and tender, the composition celebrates vulnerability as beauty.
 
A quiet flame unfurls in tender strokes,
where petals pulse with the hush of heat.
Blush and bronze entwine like breath and longing,
each curve a soft confession of becoming.
This is not a flower in full song—
but one caught in its first inhale of light.