Heart Over the City

A richly detailed figurative painting centers a serene dark-skinned figure holding an exposed anatomical heart before a layered urban skyline. Buildings, gears, wheat-like leaves, flowers, a monarch butterfly, and curling blue-white ribbons interweave around the body, while bold black contours and graphic patterning give the scene the energy of a mural or graphic novel. The figure’s lowered gaze and careful hands lend the symbolic composition a sense of tenderness, resilience, and thoughtful connection between the human body and the city.