To Be Understood Is To Be Loved

This painting reflects on intimacy, care, and the role of understanding in building safe relationships. It considers how love is practiced through everyday gestures rather than declarations, and how care becomes reciprocal through attention and presence. Centering a quiet domestic moment such as doing a partner’s hair, the work emphasizes tenderness as a form of trust. By focusing on the ordinary, the painting highlights how being seen and understood creates safety, and how relationships are sustained through small, intentional acts of care.