Can’t Sleep Love

For this piece, I chose eros (romantic love) and wanted to recreate the feeling of having a crush on someone. My main inspiration for this piece is the song “Can’t Sleep Love”, by Pentatonix. I painted one of the singers, Mitch Grassi, as the main focal point. Around him, I included lyrics of songs that personally represent the rush of crushing on someone. The lyrics “kissing in the moonlight, movies on a late night, getting old” and “can’t sleep love” describe the feeling of laying awake at night with that one person who just can’t seem to leave your mind. “讓我住進你的眼睛裡”, from the song “眼睛裡” translates to “let me live in your eyes.” To me, this line describes the feeling of being able to just stare into someone’s eyes forever. Finally, the last song lyric, “等你下課一起走好嗎?”, translates to “let’s walk together after class”, which is like the feeling of purposely taking a certain route after class just to be able to see that one person and talk to them.

Just in case the Spotify codes don’t work, here are the songs I wanted to display 🙂 —

  • Blue: Can’t Sleep Love by Pentatonix
  • Yellow: 等你下課 (Waiting For You) by Jay Chou
  • Orange: 眼睛裡 (In Your Eyes) by Deca Joins
  • Green: 七十億分之一加一 (One in a Billion) by Julia Wu
  • Pink: 小幸運 (A Little Happiness) by Hebe Tien

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