Liam Morrill is a mixed media painter and digital artist based in San Diego and New York City. Their work is centered on relationships and the ambiguity of closeness. Their portrait paintings, primarily completed in oil with elements of acrylic, focus on the variety of relationships between people but deny the viewer an exact definition of what the extent of each relationship depicted is. The paintings include a level of mystery: are the figures family? Lovers? Friends? This ambiguity is reinforced through the juxtaposition of highly rendered greyscale faces and abstract line-work and color additions. His work typically exists both physically and digitally, as he reworks physical elements of his paintings into digital collages and gives each work a secondary life. The idea of closeness and intimacy can be complicated, diverse, beautiful, and at times messy. Liam hopes that his work serves as a catalyst for people to begin to rethink their own ideas and understandings of relationships and closeness and what they view as intimacy.