A Layer of Comfort Painting

Caroline Liu is a painter, seamstress, and muralist who bridges together two unique perspectives that form her identity. Liu’s work explores her personal experiences as a late diagnosed autistic adult and her tribulations with short-term memory loss as a result of multiple concussions in the last decade. Her paintings and plushies serve as documentation of memories she’d otherwise forget, as well as visual and tactile stimuli that provide her with restorative relief. By balancing between the two, her work communicates universal narratives that reflect feelings of loss, comfort, confusion, and happiness. These themes are explored through transporting viewers into her own imagined daydreams filled with bright pops of color, textural elements, and refractive light.