Kyla Yin James

Tender, 2021

Digital

18 x 24 inches

Tender explores relationships during a time when the artist was examining their own more closely. Despite endless list making, navel gazing, swimming through thoughts and feelings - relationships will always involve intuition and perhaps something beyond that. 

Tender can be interpreted as both tender, the state of vulnerability, and tend-er, someone who cultivates. Tender looks at the softest moments and says, this is where all forms of love come from. This piece is a love letter to friendships, platonic love, queer love, and romantic love.