Artist: R.V. Monroe (Robert & Venice Monroe)
Medium: Laser engraving on natural wood, hand-painted with layered pigment, mounted on custom wood frame
Dimensions: [Insert Size]
 
 
Description:
 
The Pieces Weren’t Lost, Just Sacred is a portrait of reclamation—a Black woman built not from lack, but from legacy. Her face is formed of puzzle pieces: sharp, soft, whole, missing, found. Some are lit with color—red, green, orange, gold. Others remain wood-raw and waiting. She is not incomplete. She is intact in ways not always visible.
 
Her expression is centered. Focused. Direct. This is not a woman searching for herself. This is a woman guarding the parts you thought didn’t matter. Each puzzle piece holds memory, boundary, ancestry. None of it random. None of it disposable.
 
The pink and black frame swells around her like breath and silence—like a heart rebuilding its rhythm. It’s feminine and unshaken. Soft in tone, not in strength. Like love that refuses to explain itself.
 
Created by R.V. Monroe—the unified vision of Robert and Venice Monroe—this piece is layered in intention. Robert engraves each line with reverence and clarity. Venice surrounds her in warmth and color, stitching a frame that holds what others tried to scatter.
 
The Pieces Weren’t Lost, Just Sacred is for every Black woman who’s ever been told she was too complicated to understand. Too much to love. Too hard to hold. It is a reminder: you are not broken—you are protected. And every piece of you is sacred.