Title: Love From the Stars - A Mother and Child

Size: Size: 70x80.x3.5cm 
Date Finished: December 25, 2021

Medium: Mixed Media

Made in Melbourne, Australia

The Love from the Stars is a deeply personal and transcendent piece — born from both grief and gratitude. Created a few months after the passing of Sergio Borja’s mother, the work captures the eternal bond between a mother and child, one that endures even as life transforms into light.

Emerging from the profound darkness, soft celestial strokes of white form an ethereal embrace — the mother’s presence both near and distant, visible and unseen. The figures appear suspended between worlds, as though painted from memory and starlight. The luminous texture becomes a metaphor for the spiritual thread that connects souls beyond the physical realm.

The artist’s restrained palette and expressive technique invite the viewer to feel rather than see — to experience the ache of absence and the beauty of presence that transcends form. Each mark feels like a whisper from the universe, a reminder that love does not vanish with loss; it simply changes its shape.

This painting is a tender homage — a visual elegy that speaks of longing, remembrance, and transformation. It suggests that a mother’s love, once earthly, now radiates from the stars — forever guiding, protecting, and illuminating the path of those left behind.