Cissy Shi

White Night

This painting belongs to the anniversary portraits series which I make a painting every year to document my relationship with my partner. White Night is for the year 2021(2nd anniversary). This picture captured a special moment. In 2021, I decided to move to Toronto in December for school, me and Augusto talked about it and decided to breakup because of long distance. That was November 15th night after my birthday party, everyone is leaving, the atmosphere was cooling down. We were sitting on the couch, doing what we usually do, but both of us know that 2 more weeks will be our 2 years anniversary, and another more week we will break up. We still love each other but we were not sure about how things will go in the future. Should we be sad, or should we enjoy our last few days together? We don’t know how to feel about it.