Letters to a Daughter Painting

This is a very personal piece reflecting the difficult relationship with my daughter. It's about the the desires and wishes we have for our children as they embark on their own in life, clashing and conflicting with their own experiences and desires. It's about learning to let go, and let our children claim their own challenges even though we, as parents, want to prevent this pain and suffering, it seems inevitable. It's a relection of disappointment and loss, and the realization that itself is a false construct. The letters are messages of love and hope, and the butterfly ( a 'postman' butterfly) is the courier. Adventures and dreams can still be realized, it may not be quite how we had imagined it.