This work could equally be called Misfit Love or Untethered. It was initially  inspired by a John Cheever short story about a young couple who were so in love it became detrimental to their more and more abandoned child. 

 

Here in my image no one is turning up at the school gates. Their relationship is cocooned in an island paradise kitted out with a canoe as escape pod. I think she’s reading Pablo Neruda to herself, probably that delicious and intoxicating poem of riddles called Enigmas about the endless mysteries of nature, while he, quite young and rather useless, is attempting to be a hunter gatherer, in the hope of spearing a fish for supper. The oceanic  shelter offered by this shallow island could be washed away in an instant, just in the way that their ‘misfit’ love could disappear after a few restless days in the sunshine. 

 

From Enigmas by Pablo Neruda.