Love and Hate Are Learned the Same Way

This painting reflects on how emotional behaviors are absorbed and inherited, often without intention. Childhood memories of closeness coexist with moments of anger, revealing how care and harm can be transmitted simultaneously. The work materializes in ways children learn not only through instruction, but observation, internalizing those patterns before they can be understood. By holding tenderness and resentment together, the work sits with the discomfort of recognizing inherited emotions and questioning where love ends and learned anger begins.