January 2018
My current work deals with the spaces I inhabit, both past and present. Through painting, I revisit my own memories and experiences of moving through places I encounter daily, such as museums and gardens. My paintings explore both the formal qualities and emotional connections I feel in these spaces. This feeling is also achieved through the manipulation of logic: color is invented, perspective is flattened, and objects are fragmented and floating. The initial moment is translated into a new form of understanding through the medium of paint. Here they exist in an ambiguous place in between the tangible and the imagined.
I use a combination of prints and collages to piece together a unique version of a lived experience. While I flip back and forth between looking and remembering, the image begins to detach from reality. I rely on the recognizable presence of chairs, plants, and architecture within my paintings to create a sense of location. Through repetition of the same subjects, I am able to create alternative memories and explore the strangeness of wandering through places where I am not physically present.
Painting has become a way of understanding and remembering what I have seen. Returning to these visually and psychologically compelling spaces helps me spend time with what my eye picks up on before my thoughts can put a reason to it. I am comforted in painting’s ability to suspend time and linger in these new moments of existence.