Sonya Renee Taylor, On Radical Self Love serves as an introspection for the artist: “I get to ‘mold’ my environment in a way that honors and allows me to hear my body’s wisdom.” An acorn is depicted in a clay nicho, a type of folk art built in a shadow box style, wherein the box typically features a central figure or object for whose honor the nicho has been created. The phrase “an acorn doesn’t need to be told how to become an oak tree, it just needs the right environment” is painted along the edges of the panel, optimistically reflecting the idea that our potential for growth, confidence, and wisdom is already inside each of us. The phrase is also indicative of “Buddha-nature,” the innate potential for all beings to become a Buddha. Sonya Renee Taylor is an author whose work focuses on body liberation, racial justice, and transformational change using her framework of radical self-love.