Description
Audacity pairs Denise Hopkins’s original poem with an exuberant figure stepping—or perhaps leaping—into the water, arms outstretched as a bird takes flight behind her. Thick palette-knife texture and washes of coral, blue, and sea green give the piece a joyful sense of movement. The poem begins with a question: “What if instead of eggshells I walked on water”—and imagines what might happen if we stopped moving so cautiously through our own lives. Together, the words and painting celebrate courage, possibility, and the audacity to move toward what once felt out of reach.



