- Year
- 2025
- Medium
- Oil on Canvas
- Size
- 30 × 36 in · 76 × 91 cm
The "Hiiiii" now vibrates with five heartbeats. Each "i" a stepping stone across uncertain waters.
I painted this as a mirror to how we keep ourselves open despite everything. That fifth "i" isn't desperation—it's evolution. It's what happens when silence teaches you patience but never kills your voice.
This isn't about unanswered calls anymore. It's about how offering yourself to the world becomes its own kind of answer. How sending something outward changes you, regardless of what comes back.
"Hiiiii" isn't just reaching out—it's reaching inward too. Finding that place where longing transforms into something stronger, more knowing. Where the space between two people becomes its own kind of intimacy.
This painting celebrates that strange courage: to remain soft in a world of no replies, to stay curious when certainty would be easier. It's for everyone who's ever found beauty in the waiting, who's learned to dance with absence until it becomes a presence all its own.
