Proceeds benefit Florida Bay Forever, a local nonprofit dedicated to preserving, restoring, and protecting Florida Bay—with a strong focus on Everglades restoration—through advocacy, education, and community engagement. Learn more at FloridaBayForever.org.
Daphne:
Painter, sculptor, and inventor. Every piece a moment, every moment a legacy. Every piece she creates begins with a quiet intention to capture an innocuous moment. One that might have otherwise pass unnoticed and transform it into something lasting. A flicker of light across the floor, the hush before storm, the tenderness and a glance no one even saw. These are the moments she commits to memory, not with a camera or a phrase, but with her hands, her heart, and her chosen medium. She knows an artist’s time is limited. The work is finite, but the moment she captures or not, each piece becomes a marker on the map of a life spent noticing what others overlook. In that way, every creation is both a gift and a promise, an offering of presence and a vessel of performance. And like everything she has made before, each new work holds the potential to grow, not just in value, but in meaning. It is an investment in wonder, in slowness, in beauty of pausing long enough to see what’s real. These are not just artworks, they are time preserved, emotion made visible, and if you take one home, it will continue speaking for years, for decades, reminding you to notice the, innocuous moments in your own life and to cherish them as the treasures they are.