Stay

Theres a word thats the hardest to say out loud. Not because you dont know how. But because theres too much inside it - fear, hope, and everything that cant be explained.

Stay.

While painting this work, I felt someone new appearing inside me. A new self - one who isnt afraid, who knows, who can. And when the painting was finished, I understood who I had been saying that word to. Not to someone outside. To myself. To the new self who appeared while I was painting.

Stay. Dont go back. I need you.

The pink here is warm and anxious at the same time. The dark strokes in the center are like the silhouette of the one who almost left. The paint drips are like what couldnt be held back. Like words that catch up at the door.

Acrylic on canvas. Original artwork.