I spent all summer dreaming who you could be

• Date: 2025

• Medium: Oil on canvas

• Dimensions: 60 × 60 cm

Status: Available

A single eye fills the diamond-oriented panel, rendered in pink and lavender tones with a stylized blue-violet iris. The gaze does not meet the viewer. It looks past, toward something unfixed, and the window's reflection caught in the surface of the eye confirms it: this is not a person being looked at, but a distance being looked into.

The painting holds the particular ache of imagining someone into a better version of themselves, a lover not yet arrived at, a person mid-becoming, or the self one hopes to grow toward. That hope lives entirely in the head of the one doing the imagining. The subject of the gaze is absent from the frame, present only as the shape of the looking.

The eye is Fisher's own, though the palette departs from life. The pink and violet tones are an invention laid over an observed form, keeping the painting rooted in self-portraiture while pushing the color into the same dreamlike register as the subject.

This painting was shown as part of Optical Wounds: Life After Breaking, a two-artist exhibition pairing Fisher's oil paintings with the abstract optical work of Stephanie S. Moon, held September 30, 2026 at a Manhattan salon space as part of The Collector's Room: A Curated Evening with Art.me. The show built a dialogue between the two bodies of work around pain, womanhood, and rebirth.

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