Melissa MacAlpin



everybody's lonely



everybody knows this is nowhere





Stories about love and loss.



Tuesday kissing



broken heart broken (head)band



bluebird of happiness



I've got a gut feeling





“One cannot think well, love well, sleep well, if one has not dined well.”
― Virginia Woolf, A Room of One's Own

Over food we fall in love, become family and comfort our friends.



love and transportation in the suburbs





I grew up in a suburb of new york city.

This series was developed during conversations about the
suburbs and the way my ideas of my hometown changed
as I stumbled into adulthood.



we kissed as the sky fell



I would like to go home



he said it was his favorite song but he just knew it was hers



don't be surprised if the voice
on the other line isn't mine



remember him to me



i think i've
been here before



...and all this is metaphor:





love stories inspired by the New York Times



I usually cut things off
before it gets complicated



there are a lot of fish in the sea-
but he is the one I want



we even each other out



I just want
to take care of her



we went to dinner with a couple she met



we met when we were with other people



the years went so fast





Work inspired by "day old baby rats" written by Julie Hayden.




"Oh my God, I am glad to see you," she says



nature abhors a vacuum



instagram photos from The Newark Print shop



since you've been gone I can do whatever I want





portraits of how we learn to become single



I got a cat



got a new haircut



drank too much



got rid of my sexy underpants
and started wearing hanes her way



23 consecutive nights on sleep simply



went on a diet



the Library





a story about how people and places change



ring





A series of comics about the role rings play in love.



I hate to be alone



this is how we walk on the moon



oh, you're married



phonecall





My sister went to the Naval Academy.

I went to art school.

​This is a portrait of our different experience of war and its aftermath. ​



Gallery instillation o "phonecall" at Mana Fine Art in Jersey City, New Jersey



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