by, Samantha Syrnich TLC

There is a moment the ocean remembers what it truly is—
not chaos, not current, not storm. But light.
And in that sacred collision of salt and sun,
it opens its body like a veil,
revealing what most eyes miss:
a rainbow born not of rain,
but of surrender.

This isn’t just a wave.
It’s the sea exhaling color from its deepest truths.
The light doesn’t ask the wave to be anything other than what it is—
and in that permission,
the wave becomes something more.

I see myself in this.

Every time I have shattered,
every time I have risen again,
the light met me where the break began.
And somehow, despite everything,
beauty insisted on blooming
right through the wound.

This is not a poem.
This is a remembering.
Of who I am.
Of what cannot be erased.
Of the promise I carry
each time I walk through storm and still choose to reflect the light.

We do not need to become the rainbow.
We are the wave that reveals it.

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Soundtrack for the Soul of the Sea
Reflection by, Samantha Syrnich TLC
©️ 2025. All rights reserved.

The song I chose to accompany this work—“Now We Are Free”—is not just background music. It’s a frequency that remembers me.

Lisa Gerrard sings in a language not known to the ear, but understood by the heart. Her voice is not words—it is wave, it is wind, it is light. It feels as if she’s singing from the other side of a veil, from the space just beyond what can be said… the same place this image came from. The same place I come from, when I create.

When I first heard this song, I didn’t need to translate it.
I recognized it.
It was the sound of my spirit returning to itself.

The orchestration by Hans Zimmer rises like a tide—soft at first, then vast and aching. It lifts you. It unfolds you. And just like the wave in my artwork, it breaks open with light, with grief, with awe.

For those who’ve been shattered and rebuilt more than once—for those who’ve walked through fire, through silence, through injustice, and still carried beauty forward—this is your song too.

It tells the truth we feel but often can’t explain:

That freedom doesn’t always mean escape.
Sometimes it means becoming the light that met you at your breaking point.

That’s why this song lives here—
with the wave,
with the light,
with me.

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🎶 Listen: Now We Are Free – Lisa Gerrard & Hans Zimmer
[https://youtu.be/mQQKZ5cgybU?si=7QORnKUZqZFbfWMw]

Art: ‘The Light We Break Into”

This painting came to me the way most truth does—through rupture.

I didn’t set out to capture a wave.
I set out to remember what it feels like to be met by light when you’ve already given everything just to stay afloat.
That moment when you break—not in weakness, but in surrender—
and instead of falling apart,
you become something radiant.

The arc of color here isn’t just a rainbow.
It’s what happens when pain and power collide with presence.
It’s what rises when we don’t run from the storm—when we turn toward it and allow the light to move through us, not around us.

The orcas and whales in this piece aren’t just marine life.
They are memory-keepers.
They are the ones who carry sound and sorrow through deep waters, who know what it means to speak in vibrations when words won’t do.
Their presence reminds me that survival isn’t silent—and neither is healing.

The sea has always spoken to me.
In it, I find my ancestors, my pulse, my ache, my becoming.
This image is not just art.
It’s my reflection.
It’s the moment I chose not just to live, but to illuminate.

This is the light I broke into.
And this—this is what it looked like.

Artist & Author: Samantha Syrnich TLC
©️ 2025. All rights reserved.

🌊 — Samantha Syrnich TLC

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