These works are attempts to reconstruct fleeting memories or moments caught between clarity and blur. The “blur” opens up new and unique ways for me to play with expression and abstraction, light and dark, opaque and translucent. The paintings themselves teeter on the balance of abstraction and representation, only being weighed on how distant the memory is. The farther the memory, the blurrier it becomes.

 

I layer silhouetted leaves thinly over figures and spaces to represent how distant memories change over time.The various types of leaves act as an indicator as well as a filter. Much like nature gradually alters what it touches, memory shifts and softens the details of past experiences. I want these organic forms to suggest that remembering is not about preserving an exact image, but about living with fragments that continue to evolve, shaped by both time and natural rhythms of forgetting and recalling.

 

Vivid and bright colors are used to emphasize the emotional intensity that memories can hold, even as their details fade. The color acts as a counterpoint to the instability of the memory, highlighting how certain feelings remain vivid even when the events themselves become blurred.The viewer is left to attempt to uncover the composition as if I'm telling the story of that memory, unintentionally leaving out the details I can’t remember.Through this process, I’m investigating how my personal memories live in me long after the moments themselves have passed.