Kayla Martell Feldman approached me to create the cover for her debut poetry collection “Tikva.” Her collection focuses on grief and hope, and she wanted something that would make people curious and hopeful when they picked up the book.

Kayla wanted her cover to incorporate “Kintsugi” (the Japanese art of putting broken pottery pieces back together with gold — a metaphor for embracing your flaws and imperfections), which I did through the gold outlines on the mountains.