Domestic Bliss — Ryan Esquivel Art

IN BETWEEN HURT & HEALING

Sexual Healing SanctuaryFather Figure Domestic Bliss Source Message At the Beginning of the End of the World

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Muscle Memory

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DOMESTIC BLISS

Domestic Bliss is a reflection on the beauty love creates and the traces it leaves behind. The series considers the home not as a perfect ideal, but as a living archive: a place where colour, objects, and ordinary moments hold the emotional imprint of connection, care, and belonging.

Easy Like Sunday Morning, 2026
Polaroid emulsion lift and acrylic paint on canvas, 50 x 40 cm

DOMESTIC BLISS IS A MEDITATION ON THE BEAUTY LOVE LEAVES BEHIND – IN THE QUIET MOMENTS THAT MAKE A HOUSE FEEL LIKE A HOME.

There’s No Place Like Homo, 2025
Polaroid emulsion lift and acrylic paint on canvas
20 x 20 cm

A room, a chair, a curtain, a table setting, a familiar shade of yellow or blue — each detail becomes a marker of memory. These are the fragments through which love is remembered: not always clearly or completely, but through texture, atmosphere, and feeling.

Relics, 2025Polaroid emulsion lift and acrylic paint on canvas
20 x 20 cm

Using Polaroid emulsion lifts and mixed media, the work treats memory as something both fragile and enduring. Images are lifted, stretched, and reconstructed, echoing the way the past remains with us after it has changed form. What emerges is less a portrait of the perfect home than a record of tenderness: evidence that love was here, that it shaped a life, and that something beautiful remains.

Obi, 2026
Polaroid eulsion lift and acrylic paint on canvas
20 x 20 cm

“WE LOVED EACH OTHER AND WE LOST EACH OTHER. AND NOW, EVEN THOUGH WE STILL LOVE EACH OTHER, THE PIECES DON’T FIT LIKE THEY USED TO.”

TAYLOR JENKINS

Little Miss Ambar, 2026
Polaroid emulsion lift and acrylic paint on canvas, 40 x 50 cm

Our Style, 2025
Polaroid emulsion lift and acrylic paint on canvas, 40 x 50 cm

THE POINT WAS NEVER PERMANENCE. THE POINT IS THAT WE LIVED, AND LOVE LEFT COLOUR BEHIND.