The Stories
Beside “Eve” · TBC
The first woman, before the apology. Eve is about the moment of choosing — desire, curiosity, and the courage to reach for what you want, knowing the garden will never be the same. She is not the fall; she is the beginning.
She reached for the apple
not because she was tempted —
but because she was
curious enough to become.
— F. Roa
Beside “Lovers” · 2024
A study of closeness, absence, and everything in between. Lovers is about the courage of being seen — the tenderness and the heat, the softness and the storm, living inside the same body. Love is never only one thing, and this painting refuses to choose.
Two souls,
one breath,
a thousand
unspoken words.
— F. Roa
Beside “She” · 2024
She is a portrait of stillness — the moment before a feeling becomes a word. The closed eyes hold everything the mouth refused to say. I painted her to be looked at slowly, the way women deserve to be looked at.
She closed her eyes
and the room
learned her name
by heart.
— F. Roa
Beside “Heart” · 2024
A profile in soft light. Heart is about the tenderness we carry quietly — the warmth we keep for someone even when the door is left ajar. It is the kind of love that never asks to be witnessed.
I kept your door
the way you left it —
ajar, a little dark,
a little warm.
— F. Roa
Beside “Solitude” · 2024
The one where I let go. Layer over layer, I let the paint stand for the feeling — raw, chaotic, moving, honest on purpose. Solitude is not loneliness; it is the room where the self goes to be true.
The dark is only light
learning to rest.
I keep the lamps lit low
and listen.
— F. Roa