Artist Statement
Loss and transition have heightened my awareness of the human residue we leave behind. For almost a decade I have worked in a struggling public school and watched students struggle and grow from their experiences. At the same time I was dealing with the illness, deterioration and loss of my mother. These experiences marked my perception and made me more aware of the fluid and living nature of human memory. Physical spaces and objects trigger these memories.
Deteriorating architecture and landscapes that show the passage of time influences my paintings and installations. The work draws on the dichotomy between the internal space of a personal experience and the external place in which events occur. My work investigates ways to communicate the feelings of spaces using paint and found materials. The mark of the paint communicates the memory of the space; the found materials echo its physical reality.