"the smell of your orange peel on my hand" by Brent Showalter

Ink on Canvas

30'' by 40'' by 1.5''

The Smell of Your Orange Peel on My Hand is a text painting built through repetition, slowness, and insistence. The phrase is written again and again until it frays—losing clarity, gaining weight—mirroring how memory behaves after intimacy ends. What begins as a tender sensory detail becomes obsessive, physical, almost claustrophobic. The work sits in the aftermath of closeness, where love has already left the room but its residue hasn’t. It is not romantic in the Hallmark sense; it’s honest. A record of longing that lingers on the body longer than it should, where heartbreak is quiet, repetitive, and impossible to rinse off.

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