The girl on page XV

• The Castaway's Wife

Mixed Media - Acrylic, gouache, and watercolor 29.7×21cm / Bound

She still didn't understand. Her love would return on Saturday. They would go for a walk in the park, and he would tell her stories of his long journey. She cried from the very moment he departed; her eyes dried up months after learning of the shipwreck. It didn't take long for her to feign indifference toward her loneliness; it had accompanied her before and it seemed it would stay with her for the rest of her life. Her solitary life without him.