Suzanne Cousin
Suzanne Cousin
Suzanne Cousin, 2026
Acrylic on Canvas
10 x 10 x 1.5 in
Signed on Back
Model: Suzanne Cousin
This work is part of The Tracy Piper's "SEEN Volume 5" the fifth iteration of a collaborative art project of 50 eye paintings that were made during the Spring of 2025. For this series, the artist organized an open call for her collectors, fans, and fellow artists to be featured as one of her models. Each participant answered the same question: What does it mean to feel seen? Each painting and response is featured in the artist’s sixth book aptly titled "SEEN Volume 5".
WHAT DOES IT MEAN TO FEEL SEEN?
"To feel truly seen is not to be admired for the parts of yourself you learned to make beautiful. It is to be understood in the places you spent your life trying to hide.
The insecurities you hide behind your smile. The fears you struggle to explain. The wounds that changed the way you move through life.
To be seen is to have someone look closely at the pieces of you that feel the most difficult to love and stay anyway. To be understood beyond your appearance, beyond your strength, beyond the person you learned to become just to survive.
Because soul-deep love does not ignore your scars. It understands them. It sees how they shaped the tenderness in you, the softness you fought to keep, the way your heart still loves despite everything it has endured.
And there is something almost sacred about being seen like that. About being known fully, in all your fragility, all your humanness, all the hidden corners of yourself, and realizing you no longer have to hide to be worthy of love.
Maybe that is what it truly means to feel seen: to have someone look into the stained glass pieces of your soul, all the broken and beautiful parts, and still see something worth holding gently." — Suzanne Cousin
HANGING & CARE
Artwork is ready to hang on the wall; hanging wire is secured on the back (nail and hook needed). Dust raw canvas with a clean, soft brush and HEPA-filtered vacuum to clean. Using a new, clean brush prevents transfer of grime from previous dustings.