Real Love Is Comfortable and Without Fireworks
Your relationship goals could be this bickering couple
In her crowded closet, she has nothing to wear. And neither does he since he wears the same T-shirt for two days. The wife asks him how she looks, and the husband says fine without looking. But when she comments on another woman’s boobs at the beach, he turns his head in every possible direction. Where? Where?
Sounds familiar?
At 17, you didn’t want your marriage to look like this. They are often in the house, watching TV, doing house chores, or talking about trivial stuff. They bicker. Their life is unexciting, uninspiring, and banal.
But it’s imminent.
Tisja, a painter from Croatia (Southern Europe, the Mediterranean), depicts the life of two 40-something people and the whole region laughs at her caricatures. They’ve become so popular that she even sells plates, tote bags, and T-shirts with these figures on them.
It all started spontaneously, with the COVID-19 lockdown. One day she drew how she’d been scratching her husband’s back and people recognized themselves and kept asking for more.
In just a few lines, the Croatian artist shows real intimacy between two hairless figures. You laugh at the plump woman and her tall…
