Memories do not exist solely on their own; they are persistently entwined with the physical places where they occurred. In my paintings, fragments of landscape and abstracted architecture stand in for everything I have lived through in those places. My art depicts multiple locations simultaneously to convey the impact and accumulation of identity-shaping experiences.
Created through an intuitive process of layering and revision, each acrylic painting unfolds gradually. Traces of previous layers, as well as shifts in perspective and scale, give the work a sense of ambiguity and complexity. The process mirrors the idea of the work- negotiating layers and deciding what to hold close, change, or push away.