Once, We Were Three

Once, We Were Three is a deeply personal series that explores the quiet heartbreak of childhood during parental separation. Through the recurring image of a father, a mother, and a daughter each sitting alone on the same short street fence, the works reflect moments that were once filled with laughter, simplicity, and play, now suspended in silence and distance.

Each painting isolates one figure, the father, the mother, and the child, capturing the silent distances that grew where warmth once lived. The fence, recurring across the works, becomes both a memory and a metaphor: once a perch for family closeness, now a quiet boundary between what was whole and what remains apart.

In revisiting these moments, Once, We Were Three speaks to the invisible scars left on children when love unravels. It holds space for the loneliness of a young heart caught in the echo of what used to be a tender reminder that even in separation, the memory of unity endures.