Lovebug

15 x 30 in

Acrylic on canvas

A Japanese beetle floats skyward, suspended, not by its own wings, but by a fragile heart-shaped balloon. The piece speaks to the way love can make us feel weightless. It can lift us beyond our own sense of gravity and carry us somewhere unfamiliar and bright. The beetle, a creature we rarely associate with tenderness, becomes a vessel for that strange and undeniable truth that love often arrives as something both delicate and powerful. It holds us up even when we are unsure how to fly on our own.