Desire and yearning, a quiet healing found in the language of touch. The embrace becomes both subject and metaphor — a reminder of our most fundamental need for closeness. In the stillness of the gallery, the figures on the bench carry their own silent longings, projected onto the painted lovers before them. The artwork speaks not only of intimacy between bodies, but also of the spaces between people, where absence and distance amplify the ache of connection. To yearn is to be human; to touch is to heal.
