Love

Medium: Mixed Media on Canvas
Size: 5ft x 5ft
Creation Date: 2023
Collection: The Pulse of Life

Love (2023) is not a cliché — it’s a confrontation. This 48 x 48 inch mixed media painting from The Pulse of Life Collection captures love not as ideal, but as force: radiant, complicated, sometimes overwhelming, always transformative.

The painting glows with bold reds and deep maroons, layered with pale pinks and faded whites. Embedded beneath the surface are subtle marks — half-erased texts, shapes resembling hearts fractured or stitched, fingerprints smudged into color. Nothing here is perfect. Everything pulses.

I created Love not during romance, but in its aftermath — in that raw space where tenderness and pain blur. This isn’t about heartbreak. It’s about the totality of love: how it breaks us open, how it rearranges us. The beauty isn’t in being held. It’s in the holding.

This piece resonates with the work of Tracey Emin, whose emotional honesty leaves no room for polish. Like Emin, I believe love is worth painting because it cannot be captured — only felt, only released.

Love doesn’t flatter. It reveals. It reminds us that to love is to risk exposure — to open a space inside ourselves that may never fully close.

As part of The Pulse of Life Collection, this painting burns bright and low. It doesn’t ask for sentiment. It asks for presence. It asks if we’re willing to be changed.