This portrait was commissioned by a client who lost her baby three weeks before he was due. She had only 2 small Poloaroids of her son's face, taken at the hospital. She wanted him portrayed as an angel with his eyes open and looking happy. She also wondered if her hand could be included in the portrait as that felt important to her. The portrait was to be a surprise for her husband on Father's Day, so Roeckl used existing photos of the father's hands to construct the couple's hands together. The painting shows the moment when the new little angel they had made first opened his eyes in the golden light of heaven.