Who Is Sitting in Your Heart | Original Art | Illustration
Medium: Mixed media on A4 paper
Style: Expressive, Symbolic
Techniques: Soft brushwork, layered textures, fluid movement
Palette: Warm reds, pinks, and soft neutrals – evoking themes of love, longing, and introspection
Key Features: A figure within a heart, layered emotions, abstract composition
Description:
Created during Chapter 2 (2020 - 2023), this piece is part of the Versions of Robert Collection—a deeply personal body of work reflecting my journey through my mother’s stroke, dissociation, and eventual dementia. This period of my life involved immense inner soul work, each piece acting as a page in a diary, often accompanied by a poem or story.
This work explores the complex layers of love, memory, and longing—a heart that carries not only its owner but also past emotions, unspoken words, and the weight of connections that shape us. Is the figure inside the heart someone we love, someone we’ve lost, or a version of ourselves? The artwork invites introspection, asking the viewer: Who holds space in your heart? And are you truly present within it?
A reflection on love, presence, and the emotional echoes we carry within, urging the viewer to consider who truly resides in their heart.
Details:
- Size: A4 Illustration
- Material: Mixed media on paper
- Unframed
- Original, signed by the artist
- Limited Edition Giclée Prints Available – 150 prints total across three sizes, including the original size
Who Is Sitting in Your Heart | Original Art | Illustration
by Robert Paul:
Who Is Sitting in Your Heart
..
Who is sitting in your heart
Is it you
Is it another
Is it the ghost of a lover
or the wanted other
..
Where is your heart
Is it in the river of the past
or caught in the memory
of wishes
..
Is it in your children
or in the bonds of family
..
Are you waiting
to find your heart
or are you living in fated what may be
..
Who is living inside your heart
Who is sitting in your heart
Who will you let into your heart
..
Questions of heartbeats
..
