This began as a letter-
and became a way of working.
Dear you,
I grew up in a time when we still wrote letters by hand-
before messages disappeared into the scroll.
A letter took patience.
You had to sit with your thoughts.
Choose your words carefully.
DearLoveStory began there.
Not as a brand, but as a habit—
a way of leaving something behind for people I may never meet.
These works are not about me alone.
They are about the places that welcomed me.
With love,
Prime
Why this exists
DearLoveStory exists as a practice of slowing down.
Of being present with people and places
long enough for something real to surface.
The work is not made to decorate walls.
It is made to hold memory-to mark that someone was here,
and that their presence mattered.
Rooted in place
This work is guided by Hawaiian values,
not as symbols to display,
but as ways of moving through the world.
Place comes before platform.
Relationship before recognition.
Care before completion.
The work does not arrive with answers.
It listens first-and responds to what is already there.
If you’d like to understand how the work unfolds,
the process is shared here.