S2OC9. Rising Waters - Growing Through Challenge
How can we transform adversity into empowerment? For Season 2 of the acclaimed Art Therapy with MindSoul Meditations series, we invite you to submit artworks that explore the theme:
"Rising Waters – Growing Through Challenge"
Use your creativity to visually represent how obstacles can become stepping stones—how rising waters can lift us rather than drown us, how pressure creates diamonds, or how floods can nourish the soil for new life.
All Mediums Welcome
While we embrace AI-generated art for its accessibility, we welcome all forms of expression—painting, sculpture, performance, drawing, digital art, music, and more.
The submission form is at the bottom of this page.
FEATURED ARTIST & GUEST CURATOR: CPT.SOLO
Based in the Ukraine, CPT.SOLO has over 30 years experience in the arts. He has a passion for traditional mediums, digital, 3D, AI, CG/FX, photo/video/music.
Follow him at @TheEugeArts
Create visual representations of how challenges can become opportunities for growth. Use AI to generate images that transform obstacles into stepping stones, showing how rising waters can lift us to new heights rather than overwhelming us. This theme helps reframe difficulties as potential catalysts for development, while acknowledging the real challenges of navigating hard times. The artwork might show how pressure creates diamonds or how floods can bring new fertility to land.
Even in the midst of destruction, small acts of care and hope—like nurturing a fragile plant—can transform adversity into a powerful opportunity for renewal and growth.
This painting represents the quiet strength that emerges through personal struggle, showing how growth often begins within—transforming a weary, uncertain self into one of resilience, confidence, and inner light.
This painting symbolizes the journey through life’s hardships—where the stormy, chaotic path eventually gives way to clarity and peace, reflecting growth, resilience, and hope beyond struggle.
I wanted to transform the idea of rising water from a symbol of danger into one of hope and resilience. In this painting, the floodwaters become stepping stones, lifting people upward rather than pulling them under. The staircase, half-submerged, represents how challenges can be turned into opportunities for growth. Above, storm clouds and rain give way to radiant light, where a bare tree stands as a symbol of endurance and renewal. Below the surface, glowing stones and vibrant roots reveal hidden beauty and strength formed under pressure. Every figure is on a journey—rising, adapting, and moving toward the light. This scene is my tribute to the human spirit’s ability to transform adversity into new beginnings.
A woman stands shoulder-deep in a churning sea—a metaphor for navigating turbulent times. Balanced atop her head is a water bowl, a symbol of women’s ancestral role as bearers of sustenance, memory, and endurance. Her upward gaze suggests hope, resolve, and a search for higher meaning amid adversity. Around her, seashells and coral—ancient life forms shaped by pressure and time—represent continuity and quiet resilience.She stands as a vessel—composed, receptive, and spiritually grounded. Her stillness is not resignation, but a conscious act of equilibrium. The artwork embodies temperance as a guiding principle: the ability to remain centered amid chaos, to hold both sorrow and serenity without being overtaken by either. It invites reflection on how balance, patience, and inner strength can transform hardship into clarity and quiet power.
Walking through the depths of our challenges and despair creates growth and a metamorphosis into freedom with new wings.
Embrace Your Oneness With The Earth and Everything Within It. You Are Never Alone.
Even in the darkness of what feels like a shattered reality, the sun remains and will always bring light to any situation. Meditate, remain calm, stay in the current moment, don't project into a future that does not exist, embrace the sun and get as much time out of doors as you can. You will regenerate your mind and your body.
“Roots in the Tempest” reveals how adversity—reflected in dark skies and a turbulent sea—does not drown us, but instead fortifies our deepest roots when we choose to anchor ourselves in them. The glowing butterfly and radiant sun in the clear sky symbolize inner transformation and the hope that empowers us to rise. This piece invites us to recognize that, despite external chaos, our inner strength and unwavering resilience allow us to grow and move steadily toward the light.
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