Rise Through Jigsaw Puzzle, 1000-piece

“The sun doesn’t rush to rise, it simply returns, steady and sure. So can you.”

As the year draws to a close, it’s easy to feel the pull of urgency, the deadlines, the celebrations, the invisible weight of all that’s been carried. But this piece offers something gentler: a quiet reminder that there is strength in moving at your own pace.

The artwork’s radial composition begins with a soft half-circle sun at the top, its layered bands reaching downward like rays stretched across the sky. These layers reflect the seasons of effort, the push, the pause, the breakthroughs, and the burnouts. The alternating tones represent our shifting pace, bursts of energy, followed by the quiet spaces where we catch our breath and gather ourselves again.