Be Alone With Me, Acrylic Painting by David Akolo. (2026)

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Two figures sit back-to-back, close enough to feel each other’s presence, yet turned toward different silences. They share the same … Read more Two figures sit back-to-back, close enough to feel each other’s presence, yet turned toward different silences. They share the same space, the same stillness, even the same weight of thought, but not the same moment. Between them lives a quiet tension, the kind that doesn’t shout, but refuses to leave.
The title reads like a plea: not for company, but for understanding. Be alone with me, not beside me, not against me, but within the same unspoken feeling. It is the desire to be seen without turning around, to be felt without explaining, to be met in a place where words no longer reach.
They could be two people drifting apart, or one person split in two,caught between what is felt and what is shown. The distance between their gazes becomes louder than any conversation they could have had. And yet, their backs remain connected, as if something still holds them there, something unfinished, something unwilling to let go.
This piece lives in that fragile space where presence and absence coexist, where being together can still feel like being completely alone.

David Akolo,
Be Alone With Me, 2026
Acrylic on canvas
48 × 36 × 1 in
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