Oil on canvas
11 x 14 inches

She is mid-breath—or mid-scream.
Eyes shut tight, mouth open in a silence no one dares interrupt.

“The Secrets They Keep: Mothers and Daughters” is a portrait of inherited silence.
It is about the pain passed down in looks, in habits, in bruises covered by long sleeves and dinner table smiles. It is about what women survive behind closed doors—and what they are forced to carry so the world stays comfortable.

The brushstrokes clash like arguments.
The colors bleed like memory.

In this painting, there is no perfect victim. No tidy resolution.
There is only the weight of generational wounds—and the strength it takes to keep going while no one knows.

This is not a cry for help.
It is a record of survival.