A Child, A Care, A Quiet Love by Iyanuoluwa Babalola

Medium: Acrylic on Canvas

Dimensions: 60.96 x 91.44 cm

Year: 2026

Price: $500.00 USD

Status: available

“A Child, A Care, A Quiet Love” explores healing as something tender and intentional. It reflects how a child longs to be cared for with balance, gentleness, and awareness. Just as the boy holds the bird, not too tight to harm it and not too loose to lose it, care must exist in that delicate in-between. Like holding an egg firm enough to protect, yet soft enough to preserve true nurturing requires sensitivity. This work suggests that real care is not loud or forceful, but found in softness, safety, and trust. It reminds us that love, in its purest form, heals by holding, not hurting, and by guiding, not controlling.