Ink on Canvas - SWTBT #8 - Original art by Melanie Circle

SWTBT No. 8 is a meditation on memory, breath, and connection. Through a wash of subdued yellows, soft greens, and ephemeral reds, Melanie Circle reveals a composition that suggests a tender embrace — or perhaps the fleeting outline of one. The figures feel both present and fading, layered with scribbled energy and gestural marks that refuse to resolve into certainty.

As with all works in the Stories Waiting to Be Told series, this painting is born from process: loose writing, blurred pigments, and quiet attention until something recognizable — yet previously unseen — begins to speak. Viewers are invited to lean in, linger, and listen.