Although it has been several months since a devastating 7.0 earthquake leveled Port-au-Prince, we felt we needed to say something about Haiti. But how to illustrate it?

We could have chosen the usual route—pancaked buildings and gaunt-eyed refugees. But there is another side to the Haitian story. We asked Andre Naval, a Haitian professional artist, to paint us a cover symbolizing how he felt about the future.

Andre’s work is filled with vibrant color and energy, reflecting life as it could and should be rather than the drab poverty of life in Haiti as it actually is today. Andre may be surrounded with squalor, but his art is filled with life and brilliance. He especially loves painting butterflies and flowers, the quintessential symbols of transformation and new life, a whisper of hope for the future.

You see the result of Andre’s work on our cover—truly a glimpse of heaven, painted from the fringes of hell.