AE 45 Times

45 Times
May 29, 2025
Materials: Art Panel, b+w photo print, gouache, acrylic gel medium, sharpie

Original + Print available

Original is A4 size: 210 mm x 297 mm / 8.3 in x 11.7 in

Print is A3 size: 297 mm x 420 mm / 29.7 cm x 42 cm / 11.7 in x 16.5 in

Two Print options are available:

$35
Coated Matte paper
Printed in Lewes, UK
300 gsm
Archival 4-color ink
Signed

$45
Coated Photographic Satin paper
Printed in Lewes, UK
300 gsm
Archival 4-color ink
Giclee print
Signed

The Story:

True story.
In the time of Friendster and MySpace before college grads could join Facebook, I reconnected with a guy I knew in middle school. I think we had science y7 together. That was about it. I didn’t like or dislike him, it was just nice to hear from someone I hadn’t seen in a while.

He found me online, we met up for lunch near my work once, that was it. I didn’t even let him pay. Just ‘hi, cool to catch up, back to work now!’, which was a mistake since it meant he knew where my office was.

It all devolved from there with him telling me lies about people I went to high school with, and then telling me truths about how he’d found my sister’s profile and downloaded all of the photos she’d shared with me in them.

I put everything to private and scrubbed the Internet of my presence, had my sister go private, deleted most of my photos online, and blocked him on MySpace. But he already had the photos. Mine and my sister’s.

That’s when the phone calls began, followed by the texts. I answered the first time to tell him not to call or message me again. So he proceeded to call me 45 times in a row, leaving me messages about which photos he was masturbating to as I drove home from work, stuck in my car in traffic, crying and freaking out about what was happening.

I called T Mobile mid-drive to change my number. At first they refused but when I was clearly a sobbing mess and explained what was happening that very minute, which they could see and verify, they changed it for me.

And then there was silence.
This story has a part 2 called 'Kill My Boyfriend'
That’s about the emails.