Caring for my loved one's emotional well-being and supporting his physical decline was my highest priority for years. Like something out of a sci-fi vision, I envisioned miniaturizing him, keeping him in the city for constant care. This painting emerged from a place of longing and love, capturing the space between hope and acceptance, presence and impending loss.

‍

I created a sculpture to use as a reference for this painting. Its anamorphic form shifts from decline to renewal, symbolizing the pathologies that age can bring. The painting's fragmented shapes evoke the dissolution of a once-shared life. Abstraction became a way to express this disintegration. This process was my attempt to understand the loss and grieve the life I once had with him.

‍

Rain King invites viewers into a space of care and release, to feel the tension between holding on and letting go, speaking to the shared human experience of love, vulnerability, and the search for meaning as everything changes.

‍

‍