Unsinkable

Part of the Fusion collection, blending hand-painted oils with digital artistry Unsinkable is created in Midjourney using moodboards and image prompts from physical work, merging AI with analog essence. This portrait of Margaret Tobin Brown emerges like a defiant ember from forgotten histories. Born in 1867 to Irish immigrants in Hannibal, Missouri, she rose from a seamstress in Colorado's mining towns to wealth after her husband struck gold. Molly used her fortune for justice, founding women's clubs, fighting for suffrage, aiding labor massacre survivors, and earning France's Legion of Honor for World War I relief. Her legend solidified on the Titanic in 1912, rowing lifeboats through chaos, rallying the terrified, and turning back for more souls, earning her "Unsinkable" title. She channeled fame into orphanages, child labor reforms, and global advocacy until her death in 1932. As a person, she inspires me, with *The Unsinkable Molly Brown* being a favorite film from my childhood: a woman forged in poverty, unapologetic, transforming survival into advocacy.