Original artwork description:

Hold Me is not merely a plea—it is an existential whisper that traverses the psychological terrain of longing, abandonment, and the quiet hunger for human touch. MIKAVA interrogates what it means to reach out when the other may no longer be there, when communication fractures and we are left to hold ourselves. The figures—simultaneously present and dissolving—suggest that identity, like memory, is fragile and often dependent on our connections to others.

This work speaks poignantly to a collective human condition in an age marked by disconnection and emotional fragmentation. Yet within its darkness, Hold Me also contains a flicker of hope: the persistence of the outstretched hand, the lingering imprint of bodies once intertwined, the gesture that, even if unanswered, still insists on love.

Materials used:

Mixed media on linen canvas

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