I Choose to Love you in Silence, 2016
Oil on Canvas
60 × 40 × 2 in | 152.4 × 101.6 × 5.1 cm
Frame included
Sean Rush’s painting merges portraiture and Persian script, layering an evocative profile against Rumi’s stirring verse:
“I choose to love you in silence, for in silence I find no rejection. I choose to love you in loneliness, for in loneliness no one owns you but me. I choose to adore you from a distance, for distance will shield me from pain. I choose to kiss you in the wind, for the wind is gentler than my lips. I choose to hold you in my dreams, for in my dreams, you have no end.”
Rush explores love defined by restraint. The subject’s serene profile, rendered in warm, coffee-stained tones, embodies distance and devotion. The Farsi script overlays the figure, blurring between presence and absence.
Rush blends translucent washes and coffee‑toned textures to transform the portrait into a meditation on silent longing. The overlay of script and soft profile evokes restraint and emotional depth.
This work invites reflection on quiet love—felt in solitude, sustained by distance, yet enduring beyond rejection or time.
“I choose to love you in silence, for in silence I find no rejection. I choose to love you in loneliness, for in loneliness no one owns you but me. I choose to adore you from a distance, for distance will shield me from pain. I choose to kiss you in the wind, for the wind is gentler than my lips. I choose to hold you in my dreams, for in my dreams, you have no end.”
Rush explores love defined by restraint. The subject’s serene profile, rendered in warm, coffee-stained tones, embodies distance and devotion. The Farsi script overlays the figure, blurring between presence and absence.
Rush blends translucent washes and coffee‑toned textures to transform the portrait into a meditation on silent longing. The overlay of script and soft profile evokes restraint and emotional depth.
This work invites reflection on quiet love—felt in solitude, sustained by distance, yet enduring beyond rejection or time.