“I Kiss From the First Row Because I Can’t Wait Until the Last One”

“I Kiss From the First Row Because I Can’t Wait Until the Last One”
Tempera on paper
30 × 40 cm
2022

The phrase “I kiss from the first row because I can’t wait until the last one” contains irony, longing, emotional impatience, and the feeling of living inside uncertainty. During periods of war, time changes psychologically. People begin loving faster, speaking faster, missing each other more intensely, because subconsciously nobody feels guaranteed another moment.

For me, this work is about emotional urgency. About the human desire to feel, touch, love, and emotionally exist before life changes again.

This painting was also influenced by pop art, emotional expressionism, and the visual language of artists who transformed psychological tension into raw visual energy rather than controlled composition.

For me, this work became a document of emotional survival during a moment when reality itself felt unstable.

“Perhaps all the dragons in our lives are princesses who are only waiting to see us act, just once, with beauty and courage.”

— Rainer Maria Rilke