Resilience and Rebirth by Sam Millard

Artist: Sam Millard
Puzzle Designer: Jasen Robillard
Dimensions: 42.7 cm x 32.1 cm (very irregular, hand drawn edge and 1 "drop-out")
Piece Count: 501
Difficulty: 4 out of 5

De profundis ad astra. From the deepest darkness, the stars emerge.

The mythical phoenix carries two paradoxical truths at once: the felt weight of darkness and turmoil, and the lightness of being open to change.

Sam Millard's Resilience and Rebirth captures exactly that moment of transition: the phoenix mid-ascent, still trailing the void from which it emerged, wings spanning the threshold between gravity and flight. Designer Jasen Robillard's puzzle interpretation holds both in tension — the Jungian shadow and the earned radiance, the fallen and the rising, the wound and the fire that heals it.

Per ardua ad astra. Through adversity, we reach the stars.

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