You have to work on the hierarchy of the elements—the eye had to know where to go, and right now there’s no direction. But I love you anyway.

 

You can’t say that you care about me and keep flirting with me but then not have hard conversations about what you actually want. That’s lying to everyone involved, me and your partner and yourself. Like what the heck. But I love you anyway.

 

You have to make the figure recede or come forward in space, because right now it’s just flat, it’s just shape, there’s no dimensionality. But I love you anyway.

 

You have to tell me this stuff before it’s too late! I have to know what kind of terms I’m standing on! But I love you anyway.

 

Okay so these colors are too close together in hue, they vibrate against each other so you can’t actually see the edges of the forms, it just becomes abstraction in that moment and maybe you want that effect, fine, but if you’re trying to pull this forward it’s not going to work. But I love you anyway.

 

You can’t tell me you’re gonna show up for me and then not give me the in-between stuff, you can’t just ghost out on me when it gets important and you’re like, oh, I’m really lonely I need support right now, and I’m here offering you support. I get needing to be lost on your own, totally, that’s real, but if we have this connection, what else is it for? That’s what it’s for. But I love you anyway.

 

I like the graphic aspect to this, with the outline, sort of a drawing mark, but if you’re gonna do it you have to make sure it doesn’t become a gimmick, and if you know I have this pattern and you feed into it, or I have a hard time avoiding it, you know I’m gonna wanna outline what’s going on and it comes out of my previous work trying to merge those disciplines. As much as I want to leave it open-ended, I only have so many tools. I don’t know if we can approach any of these as finished works. 

But I love you anyway.