People Are Sharing The Text Messages They’d Love To Send to Their Ex and it’s Heartbreaking

If you could say anything to your ex, without fear of repercussions, what would you say?

That was the simple starting point for 19-year-old Californian conceptual artist Rora Blue and her ‘Unsent Project’.

The project draws together hundreds of texts that will never be sent, using the prompt: ‘State your first love’s name and type what you would say if you sent them a text message. Also include the color that you think of when you think of your first love’.

‘I started the project as a way for people to connect with each other,’ Rora explained to Metro.co.uk. ‘I feel like this is a concept that many people can relate to and I wanted to find a way to artistically represent love.

The project allows people to say whatever they want to their ex, while remaining anonymous.

It’s cathartic, furious, funny, desperately romantic, and, at times, utterly heartbreaking.

Over 2,000 people responded to Rora’s original prompt last year.

She arranged over 400 of the texts by colour, creating a collage of unsent messages.

‘My goal was find out what color most people see love in. As I created the collage, I was pleasantly surprised to find that love is seen in the full spectrum of color,’ Rora explains.

‘I wanted to create something that was visually appealing from a distance but emotional and meaningful up close.’

It says all there is to say.

Because Keaton will never know how amazing he is. 

Some of us have definitely been there.

And we’ve all been here.

Asked if any of the messages particularly affected her, Rosa says this one still haunts her: ‘I am sorry that I got behind the wheel drunk. I am even more sorry that you were in the passenger seat. I miss you every day.’

However, above all, the project showed her that, ‘love exists in many shapes and forms. The emotions that are written about in submissions are so diverse.

‘I also have learned that people see love in every color imaginable,’ she adds.

If you want to submit a text, go to Rora’s website here – you can even get your text turned into a customised sticker via her Etsy page.