ARTIST’S NOTE — LET THE TEAR CRY

ARTIST’S NOTE — LET THE TEAR CRY

I created this piece for the moments when crying feels “unsafe.”

Not because it is wrong —
but because the world often treats tears like something that needs to be “fixed.”

People want to calm you down immediately.
They want to explain your sadness.
They want to close the feeling before it has a chance to complete itself.

But some emotions don’t need to be cut short —
they need to be completed.

ABOUT THIS PIECE

Inner-Born Tears is about the moments when a person wants to cry, but tries not to show it.

Not because they feel nothing.
Because they feel too much.

Sometimes out of pride…
Sometimes out of shame…
Sometimes because you don’t want to look fragile in front of anyone, you hold your tears back.

But crying is not weakness.
It is honesty.

This piece represents that silent conflict:
a trembling heart and a face that stays expressionless.

When the tear cannot fall, it turns inward.
And in that moment, the tear cries — not for anyone else, but for itself.

From within.

LET THE TEAR CRY is a quiet boundary:
Don’t stop the tear.
Don’t turn it into a lesson.
Don’t ask it to prove itself.

Let it pass through the body.
Let it soften the weight.
Let it remain private.

Crying is not collapse.
It is release.
And sometimes, being able to let go is the strongest thing a person can do.