Five figures stand shoulder to shoulder, gazing at the ocean as morning light rises over the horizon. Their forms are etched in charcoal and pencil — grounded, quiet, almost spectral — while the painted sea and sky burst with splattered color and movement. A palm tree stencil rises between them, both playful and symbolic, a marker of place and belonging. This piece lives in the tension between stillness and anticipation: the waiting before the wave, the pause before the leap. It asks — where do we stand together when facing the vast unknown?