![Valeria Pezo: Installation View, 2020](https://bfafinearts.sva.edu/wp-content/uploads/Valeria-Pezo_001_1500px-e1590074294346.jpg)
Valeria Pezo, Installation View, 2020
How difficult it was to see you walk away slowly with the prohibition to follow you. See you fade away . . . both on opposite paths creating a space of deep solitude between you and me. So much love to be shared but abandoned just there . . . in nothingness.
How hard it is to see you turn for the last time, your body rocking away from me; but nothing more difficult than seeing you walk away and start confusing your silhouette, confusing everything I desire in a simple stain that endlessly becomes a void, becoming part of all that doesn’t interest me. The enormous fear that you will leave and camouflage yourself with life until I can’t see you anymore and realize that all that remains is to turn around and continue walking.
![An oil painting by Valeria Pezo depicting a figure's arms reaching forward from the top of the canvas with hands clasped and fingers interlaced in the center.](https://bfafinearts.sva.edu/wp-content/uploads/Ansiedad-Valeria-Pezo_1500px-598x800.jpg)
Valeria Pezo, Ansiedad, 2019, Oil on Canvas, 10 x 12 inches.
![An oil painting by Valeria Pezo showing a portrait with a white brushstroke partially blocking it out. A hole is ripped through the canvas at the lower right.](https://bfafinearts.sva.edu/wp-content/uploads/Valeria-Pezo_004_1500px-e1590158592941-599x800.jpg)
Valeria Pezo, Larga Distancia, 2019. Oil on Canvas, 12 x 12 inches.