This portrait was created during a period of overwhelming fear, grief, and confusion. The feeling was intense and unmistakable, yet its cause remained hidden from me. I only knew something was deeply wrong.
Much later, I came to understand what lay beneath. I had been in a long-term relationship with a man who was living a double life—built on manipulation, secrecy, and emotional control. At the time the portraits were made, I did not know this. But my body did. The images emerged from what I could feel but could not yet see.
Looking back, everything falls into place. The portraits are not about what happened, but about what was already present; unspoken, unseen, and profoundly real.
For eight years, I loved someone I never truly knew.

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