DEAR FUTURE WIFE
“Dear Future Wife” is an art project built around a series of illustrations and letters.
What started as a silly idea — writing to a woman who kept refusing to show up — has grown into a full-blown exhibition.
It offers a playful way to process the pressure to grow up, settle down, and “become a man”. The project chronicles the evolution of love, identity, and social expectations, showing how childhood fantasies about a future partner shift as we move through real life.
Through humour, naivety, and deliberately simple language paired with minimalist drawings, it traces a journey of searching, longing, pretending, hoping – and, eventually, growing up. The work examines the gap between the life we are taught to want and the life we are brave enough to live.
It is about the longing for connection, the expectations we inherit, the rules we try to follow, and the moment we realise that real love begins only when we stop performing and start telling the truth.
This project is an attempt to show that love doesn’t make us braver. Becoming brave is what finally makes love possible.
At its core, “Dear Future Wife” is a celebration of vulnerability and the tender chaos of becoming yourself.
Short version
“Dear Future Wife” is a series of illustrations and letters that turns a silly idea — writing to a woman who refuses to show up — into a full-blown exhibition.
Through humour, naivety and minimalist drawings, it explores the pressure to grow up, settle down and “become a man”, and the gap between the life we are taught to want and the life we are brave enough to live.
At its core, it’s a celebration of vulnerability and the tender chaos of becoming yourself.
