Trelise
In Trelise, Troy Hul Arnold explores the intimate and often ineffable nature of partnership through a symbolic fusion of identities. The title—a portmanteau of the artist’s name and that of his life partner, Elise Mascia—serves as both a conceptual device and a deeply personal statement. It represents the psychic merging of two individuals into a shared consciousness, where boundaries between self and other begin to blur.

Arnold reflects on the uncanny synchronicities that emerge in long-term relationships: moments when one partner thinks, and the other instinctively acts—unspoken gestures echoing across an invisible thread of understanding. In Trelise, this phenomenon is not just romantic but metaphysical, suggesting a profound interdependence shaped by time, trust, and emotional proximity.

This work stands as a meditation on togetherness, not as ownership or assimilation, but as attunement. Trelise speaks to the rare experience of becoming one without losing oneself—a quiet, poetic vision of love as mutual resonance.