SOMETIMES I MISS YOU

SOLO EXHIBITION WITH RO3 GALLERY – DECEMBER 10, 2021

The longing I feel for New York, and the person I was there, is devastating at times.I’ve never felt more alive than I did there - and I’m not sure if I’ll ever find that feeling again. 

It’s odd what we choose to remember, what we grasp to.

Summer’s in New York are intoxicating - lust is bottomless and liquid crystals drip down sunkissed skin, overflowing.      

The grass always seemed to perfectly mirror my eyes.

You felt like an endless July - your lips cool, fleeting as they found mine - I craved you.

Aperol spritz at dusk, fireworks above, our city welcomed us.

With you beside me, I became indestructible.

That’s a dangerous thought.

‘Sometimes I miss you’ is a body of work that attempts to capture Harrison’s aching for a city that is no longer her’s. Through incredibly intimate writings and paintings, she allows the viewer to experience the last two years of her life in New York. Her work draws on the themes of love, grief, intimacy, loneliness and what it means to be a woman.

It may seem as simple as a devastated young woman becoming her own home, falling out of love, and back into it with someone new - but it’s much more complex than that. This is her attempt at piecing her life back together while finding a bit of beauty in the chaos. Allow yourself to be uncomfortable, you may find a piece of yourself in her work. Harrison hopes that her work can create intimate conversation amongst strangers. 

“The most beautiful thing is honesty, even if it’s really painful to look at.” Tracey Emin.