{"product_id":"burning-hope-and-letting-go","title":"Burning Hope and Letting Go","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"et_pb_column et_pb_column_1_2 et_pb_column_1  et_pb_css_mix_blend_mode_passthrough\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"et_pb_module et_pb_text et_pb_text_0  et_pb_text_align_left et_pb_bg_layout_light\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"et_pb_text_inner\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e16 × 20 inches\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAcrylic on canvas\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eSatin varnish\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eBlack wood gallery frame\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eMay 2025\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e⸻\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eA single sunflower is held delicately against a star-speckled void. Its petals ignite, curling toward a center that has become a quiet furnace.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe composition stages a fragile bloom against a cosmic void, where flickering flames hover in suspension. The blackened core anchors the scene, keeping the brightness from dissolving into infinite space.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eCreated alongside the poem in late May, Sunflower on Fire and these verses inspired and informed each other — a dialogue between image and language about fragility, resistance, and what it means to hold on inside the dark.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cblockquote\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eI’m Velcro rotting in emotional escrow.\u003cbr\u003eInside my body, feeling the gravity.\u003cbr\u003ePulled and pushed down—\u003cbr\u003eThrough the ground, I lose capacity.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eSuspended in negative space,\u003cbr\u003eI see white noise at this pace.\u003cbr\u003eThe silence is deafening, it’s cyclical,\u003cbr\u003eFacing a reckoning, lost in the liminal.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eFamished, following bread crumbs.\u003cbr\u003eI see the door as my head numbs.\u003cbr\u003eLeft cracked, barely open,\u003cbr\u003eWith a song and no words spoken.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eI finally felt visible, even coherent.\u003cbr\u003eInvisible again, not even transparent.\u003cbr\u003eSearching without being guided.\u003cbr\u003eFading without fully dying.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eA ghost is what you made me.\u003cbr\u003eAt most, I’m always a maybe.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/blockquote\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Brian McNuly","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45192267399341,"sku":null,"price":750.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0722\/5252\/2669\/files\/sunflower-product_d2a96529-1268-4bd4-95f3-81597bb092cf.jpg?v=1762286372","url":"https:\/\/www.aliennation.shop\/products\/burning-hope-and-letting-go","provider":"AlienNation","version":"1.0","type":"link"}