This is the everything of motherhood. Hear our roar.

It's fitting the name of this original piece is "A Labour of Love," because she definitely took the most time to get it right!
There are so many details from the original illustration, from the steadfast look of the woman, the joy of the child, or even the expression of the dog. We pictured them walking for hundreds of miles to get to somewhere better than where they were, and added the photo of the horizon and sun at their back to light their way. 
Brandi Carlile's song "The Joke" came to us as we took in the picture. In particular, her line of "carrying your baby on your back across the desert" fit perfectly. It shows the dichotomy of how hard life was at that time, yet how much hope lay just ahead for the next generation. 

Artwork Details:
- Based on the original art "A Labour of Love" by Thomas Francis Dicksee, 1860. 
- A student of Henry Perronet Briggs, Dicksee came from a family of artists and exhibited at the Royal Academy from 1841 through 1895. He specialized in historical and genre subjects and often portrayed actors in roles. Between 1873 and 1895 the artist produced a series of evocative full-length depictions of leading female characters from Shakespeare, shown within landscapes, including "Ophelia" (1875), "Juliet" (1875), "Cleopatra" (1876), and "Miranda" (1895). The present representation of a young woman who joyfully carries a young boy through a rocky Welsh landscape anticipates those dramatic works, and was shown by Dicksee at the British Institution in 1860, then engraved for the "Illustrated News of the World."
- Words come from Brandi Carlile's song "The Joke", co-written by Brandi Carlile, Tim Hanseroth, and Phil Hanseroth in 2017.