Oil on Wood Panel | 101 x 76 cm | 2021 A sad Libyan girl with a heart that bleeds when broken—she must have a pomegranate for a heart. I created this piece after enduring one of the most heart-wrenching years of my life, sealing those memories away in the oils. To keep a very long a dramatic story short, the year before I came on this app and started sharing my work with the world was possibly the most heart-wrenching year of my life thus far. There was a lot of hurt, a lot of tears, a lot of anger. And I partially blame myself for putting myself through such a rough year because I didn’t want to let go; I wanted to make things better. I could fix it. I couldn’t. Afterwards I truly understood, “We plan and Allah plans and He is the best of planners.” It took me a while to fully accept that.