“Ein Heldenleben (A Hero’s Life)” refracts Strauss’s 1898 tone poem through the lens of postpartum resilience. Forms clash and converge; colour surges from shadow to light. The canvas moves like a single, breath-held movement—conflict, fatigue, defiance, return. It is the story of a hero and the story of a mother: the body as battleground, the heart as standard, the march toward hard-won calm.
