‘The End of Love’ seeks to convey the emotional state when love is lost, either through tragedy or the replacement of love and passion by loves opposite emotion: which is indifference.
The monochromatic schizm, that divides dissected shapes of muted reds and fading yellows, pierced by antagonistic orthogonal shapes, lines and darts attempts to convey two souls divided with emotional enmity, the slow decay and loss of love conveyed on the right and the ensuing indifference and perhaps emptiness wrought by love lost. However, the schizm is not symmetrical suggesting it is the direct result of the degradation conveyed on the left, with the dissected imagery to the right indicating the rupture of the emotional bond and the loss of love was not consensual.
When I first showed this completed piece to Phyllis. I had to reassure her that it wasn’t how felt, but rather what I imagined how it would feel to lose her love - that is, my painting is an expression of the emotional wrench wrought by love lost absolutely; and as such this painting is a representation of grief pre-imagined, honouring a bond that truly matters by forcing myself to feel it’s potential loss and absence.