SUCCESS MENTALITY—two words stamped like dogma. But the art knows better.
At the center, a red burst—half flower, half wound—bleeds down the canvas. It says what no slogan ever will: Success is violent. Beautiful. Unforgiving. Real.
The Bloom and the Bruise is for the ones who built empires from scraped knees and sleepless nights. It’s not about “winning.” It’s about what it costs to keep choosing yourself when no one claps.
It reminds us that success is not clean. It leaves color on your hands and blood in your bloom.
This piece doesn’t celebrate the mentality. It interrogates it.
