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This is a portrait of Yen-Li. She's a girl I was mad about a couple of years ago, and the feelings she once invoked were so powerful it took me a while to be able to step back and objectively paint her. While those feelings were inside me, the task was impossible and so there were two failed attempts.

This is why it's called 'On Letting Go', because it took me until I had completely let go to be able to paint her. The chaos on the left melts towards the cool blankness on the right, symbolising the transition of her meaning everything to me, to become a shadow and relatively unimportant in my life or emotions.

Description
This is a portrait of Yen-Li. She's a girl I was mad about a couple of years ago, and the feelings she once invoked were so powerful it took me a while to be able to step back and objectively paint her. While those feelings were inside me, the task was impossible and so there were two failed attempts.

This is why it's called 'On Letting Go', because it took me until I had completely let go to be able to paint her. The chaos on the left melts towards the cool blankness on the right, symbolising the transition of her meaning everything to me, to become a shadow and relatively unimportant in my life or emotions.