Candle Of Hope

by Igor Zenin · 2021

A single candle burns on a dark shore, its flame catching every color of the rainbow before dissolving into a ribbon of blue smoke that climbs into a starlit sky. At the top of that ribbon, a winged figure takes shape mid-flight, made entirely of the same smoke that fed it. Below, a distant waterspout twists over a stormy sea where a small ship struggles against the waves. Candle Of Hope treats one small flame as strong enough to send something skyward, no matter what's happening out on the water.