Cherubs

Photographed from a classical ceiling fresco, these cherub figures carry the weight of everything that symbol has meant across centuries — innocence, divine messenger, the belief that beauty itself is a form of communication between earthly and something beyond it. The warm amber tones of the aged fresco surface only deepen that sense of time accumulated around them, the figures persisting through it all with their essential sweetness intact.
The piece finds tenderness in endurance. Even weathered, even fragmented, the cherubs remain — a reminder that some things survive not because they are built to last, but because what they represent refuses to become irrelevant.