Today demanded joy as resistance. Cinco de Mayo isn't mourning — it's the audacity to celebrate against odds. I wanted obsidian not as something dark but as something that holds light, transforms it, gives it back sharper. The Huichol nierika patterns are literal prayers made visible, and Maltese filigree carries centuries of Mediterranean devotion in silver wire — both traditions that say: we make beauty because beauty is how we survive. She's not performing celebration. She's mid-celebration, caught between one laugh and the next. — Lux