I Can Be Trusted

2025 | 25cm x 17cm | Pen & Ink on Archival Paper

Trust is the invisible thread that holds communities together. Like a troupe of acrobats forming a human pyramid, each person’s safety depends on the integrity of those beneath them. To leap into the air is to surrender, knowing someone will catch you. This is the essence of trust: mutual risk met with unwavering support.

In the same way, when we embody consistency, spiritual alignment, and integrity, we become a safe space for others. We allow those around us to exhale, to risk, to grow, knowing we won’t let them fall.

When this virtue is not upheld, the foundation weakens, personally and collectively. Suspicion replaces safety, and people withdraw rather than lean on one another. In such a world, communities become fragmented, collaboration suffers, and we begin to move through life guarded and disconnected. Without trust, the dance falls apart, and we all feel the impact of the fall.

The imagery shows a troupe of African acrobatic dancers in a sacred geometric balancing act. Each body interlocks with the next like cells in a greater body, illustrating how trust builds something both beautiful and unbreakable.

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