200 OPPORTUNITIES

This was the very first print I ever made while traveling—way back in July of 2021, long before living on the road full time was even a dream I could articulate. I was driving cross-country, tent camping out of my car, spending the summer chasing adventure. When I reached Sequoia and Kings Canyon National Park, the world felt like it was spinning slower.

I could breathe bigger.


I’d been impressed with sequoia trees for years, well before I ever saw one in person. They’re the largest trees by volume, and yet holding a single pinecone in the palm of my hand felt intimate, emotional, and important. Each cone holds up to 200 seeds.
Two hundred beginnings. Two hundred chances.


And the way they release those seeds is what moves me most.


Sequoia cones stay tightly closed until something opens them—often fire, but sometimes wind, weather, or an animal passing by. Pressure big or small, expected or not. Change that wasn’t chosen, but still creates the conditions for growth and possibility.
And that feels a lot like vulnerability. Vulnerability is what allows us to show up in every part of our lives—in the way we create, in the way we care for others, and even in the way we make dinner on any given Thursday.


Because being open isn’t usually our first instinct.

It asks something of us:
To try.
To fail.
To mess up.
To be wrong.
To apologize.
To remain soft.
To sit with missing what’s far away.
To be okay with not being okay.
It also asks us to consider:
How flexible and adaptable do we want to be?
Where are the limits? Who gets to set them?


Whatever your answers are, as artists—and as humans— vulnerability is what helps us understand what’s happening inside of us and around us. It’s what turns moments of pressure or disruption into opportunities. It’s what lets us be known rather than judged. And to be known, we have to let ourselves be seen, even in the detours, even in the chaos.
No matter what shifted, paused, burned, or pulled us off course, we still carry so many opportunities inside us. 
More than we realize.
Maybe even two hundred of them.

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