Artist: Carly White
Title: The Gift of the Spoiled Orange
Medium: oil
Price: $800
Dimensions: 16 x 20 inches
Artist Statement: At 18, I faced my first deep depression, alone and overwhelmed. I prayed for relief for weeks. One day, a woman approached me and gave me an orange. Her small act of kindness pulled me from the shadows, even though the orange was spoiled when I opened it. It wasn’t the gift itself but the feeling of being seen that brought me light. I paint oranges to remind myself that, even if my efforts to help are imperfect or even rotten, it’s the act of love that matters.
