My concentration is centered around my interpretation of the color wheel theory of love. Red for aesthetic love, orange for agapic love yellow for storge (friendly) love, green for pragmatic love, blue for playful ludus love, and purple for manic love.

I really felt that this concentration was something I needed to do to reclaim my expression of love. Love is delicate and fragile because it can easily be warped into something ugly and toxic that's advertised as love, it becomes a prison. My work tells a story about opening up to love again. I started out with the color being shown on the subject's skin–I saw this as keeping the love in the relationship rather than shown to the world. Then he realization hit me that by keeping it hidden (on the skin) it implies that the general love I was painting is shameful which isn't something love should ever be. This allowed me to put every color into the subject's skin to show how diverse the relationship can be and the corresponding color would be in the background, but the original thought was still there. As I worked I thought about hands, our main defense used to push people away or embrace them or make art as I was doing, to show hate or love. Touch is important in love, but touch can lead to violence and the warped, toxic love that I was trying to banish, so I used my hands to paint love without touch as a threatening presence to the subject and without red to show touch isn't necessarily sexual. In multiple pieces the hands are covering the face to keep up a wall of defense against someone, but as the works progress that wall is gone as the hands are no longer shown.The subject is glowing in a joyful light, this is the purest effect of love that exists: happiness