“Across distance and silence, love still waits at the family table.”In Sunflowers from My Parents’ Home, Halyna Vakulenko transforms a... Read More
“Across distance and silence, love still waits at the family table.”
In Sunflowers from My Parents’ Home, Halyna Vakulenko transforms a bouquet of sunflowers into a deeply personal meditation on family, memory, and longing. Inspired by a photograph sent by her father from Ukraine, the painting carries the warmth of home across continents — a quiet gesture of love preserved through light and color.
Through expressive palette-knife textures and luminous golden tones, the sunflowers glow like living memories against a deep blue vase, evoking the tenderness of family gatherings and the emotional bond between parents and daughter. Part of the Songs of the Sun collection, the work becomes a poetic reflection on exile, resilience, and the enduring light of parental love.
