That’s what Noa’s husband told me when I apologized for taking so long to finish this portrait. I started it more than a year ago, and for a while, I wasn’t happy with it. I even stopped working on it completely for a few months. Something about the timing, the mood, the context – I just couldn’t see it clearly.
When I eventually came back to it – I let myself finish it without pressure. It didn’t get much attention on my main Instagram page when I shared it in a story, but last week I posted it in an Israeli Facebook art group and was surprised by the response. A few shares, 50 comments, and more than 600 people liked it. It reminded me that even when things take time – or especially when they take time – something good comes out of it.
It’s not the first time it has happened but this drawing reminded me to trust that. To not give up just because something feels like a dead end for a while. Sometimes art just needs to breathe before it finds its form.
