New Series: Exploring Memory, Identity, and Connection
As I embark on a new series of work, I am diving deep into themes of memory, identity, and the enduring connections we share with the people and experiences that shape us. This collection is inspired by the recent passing of my grandmother, a significant influence in both my life and my art. Through her love of music, nature, and the arts, she fostered in me a deep appreciation for beauty, creativity, and connection.
Having lost her to dementia, I’ve been reflecting on how memory, once vivid, can become fragmented and faded over time. In this series, I’m exploring what remains, the essence of a person that lingers even after details fade. I’m looking at lines in a symbolic way: lines on maps that represent journeys taken, lines in fingerprints that mark identity, and lines in the folds of skin that show the passage of time. These lines are the threads that connect us to the past, to our loved ones, and to the spaces we inhabit.
My intention is to create a body of work that speaks to the dialogue between presence and absence, between the details we lose and the emotions that remain. Using my abstract, expressive style, I aim to evoke the complex layers of memory and identity through colour, texture, and gestural marks. Each piece in this collection is an invitation to explore the ways in which we remain connected to those who have shaped our lives, even as the boundaries between the past and the present blur.
This work is a personal journey, one of grief, remembrance, and celebration. It is also an exploration of how we navigate change, how we lose parts of ourselves or others, and how we continue to find meaning and connection even in the face of those changes. I hope these pieces will resonate with others who have experienced the ebb and flow of time, memory, and the relationships that shape who we are.
I am excited to share this ongoing exploration with you and look forward to seeing how this series evolves in the coming months. The themes of memory and connection are deeply personal, but they also speak to something universal, the unspoken ties that bind us across time, even as the details of those ties may fade.