2024

16/20 inch

Mixed Media 

When I was a little girl, we all had the same dream — a small, rosy dream of owning a Barbie doll. She symbolized lightness, beauty, magic, and that delicate sense of girlhood that lives inside every child. Pink was the color of our inner celebration — the color of dreams, hope, and our earliest fantasies about the future.

Barbie Spring was born from that memory.

From that tender feeling of being small in a big world, yet soft, bright, and open like a blooming petal.

The pink sakura in this painting is not just a spring blossom.

It is a return to that girlhood state where every detail of the world felt beautiful, gentle, and somehow sacred.

Where pink wasn’t just a shade — it was a mood.

Where petals in the wind reminded us of the purity of our first dreams and the remarkable ability of a young girl to believe in magic.

Against the clear blue sky, the sakura blossoms just as our childhood hearts once did — boldly, vividly, sincerely.

Within it lives a femininity that is not yet adult, but early, fragile, and radiant — the kind that is only beginning to breathe.

Barbie Spring is a painting-memoir.

A reminder of lightness.

Of softness.

Of that first, unspoken beauty we felt within ourselves long before we had the words for it.

This piece holds a quiet truth:

inside every woman lives a little girl who still looks at the world with wide, hopeful eyes and believes that everything is possible — if she simply allows her own inner blossom to begin.