• Title: 'After the Fire'

• Artist Name: Faki Kuano

• Medium: Mixed Media

• $153 ($168 with frame)

• Fakikuano@hotmail.ca

• Location: Café du Monde Crêperie

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This piece shows black flowers that almost look like a road map, with rain splashes and rings layered throughout. From far away it feels simple, but when you get close, more details start to appear.

It was inspired by something I saw after a forest fire in Sudan. The thought of animals and trees burned was really heart breaking for me, being a nature lover myself. Later I was told the fire didn’t spread through the whole forest and was caused by nature and nature has its own ways of reseting and starting all over. What I understood was that

fire resets ecosystems. Its destructive but also clears space for renewal. The first weeks we saw black ground, tiny shoots were appearing and moss and grasses. It didn’t look like much but life seemed to return when it rained.

The dark flowers represent both what was lost and what can grow back. The rain marks hint at cleansing and time passing. This work is about hope showing up quietly in the first growing season, and how what looks dead from a far often becomes more alive up close.