Memories Lost Collage

Using photo transfers, fiber paper, pastels, and paint, I layer the complexities of emotions surrounding loss and disease. I explore the dichotomy between pain and beauty, connection and separation, life and death. In these series, I use my mom’s snapshots, cutting and manipulating them between foreground and background. "Her Story is Ours" and "Lost" pulls the images together on a large unstretched panels taking my mom’s struggles as a woman and combining them with what is happening in the world today, putting our stories within the context of history and heritage. "Suspension of Time and Place" reveals the process of using the travel snapshots as a tiny canvas hung in an installation using audio of my mom playing the piano to establish an alternate space that holds the power of the mother daughter connection and separation. As I paint each 4 x 6 photograph, I appropriate and reconstruct my mother’s journey while then cutting up my writing to deconstruct my story in relation to our combined memories. My hope is to create a shared history where the intersection of lives lived connect, ebb, and flow. In such a chaotic world today, my experiences of loss and grief echo the tone and tenor as I search for meaning through art.

Collage:Paper on Canvas

Original:One-of-a-kind Artwork

Size:72 W x 32 H x 0.3 D in

Delivery Time:Typically 5-7 business days for domestic shipments, 10-14 business days for international shipments.