I Choose To Love You In Silence
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 em