Looking Up Painting

Looking Up: This piece is about longing for home. But she is on the outside looking in. Home and family represent both belonging and a fetishistic middle class consumerism and idealization of the family unit. The house looms, asserting itself as a symbol success behind a property line fence. The woman disappears into her role as mother--and they are but cartoons of real life. Of course much of this is based on my contradictory feelings of being home raising children and understanding my own desires for home, and a sense of normalcy. I express this sentiment in art, but in real life am living it. I think the main point of this painting is contradiction. These paintings create a series entitled The Connectivist’s Dilemma. I portray architectural features of American suburban homes either contained by the Scottish landscape, immersed in mytholocial drama, or as memories.   Home represents a utopian desire for connection and community, but also speaks to middle class consumerism.  The idealization of the familiy and home as a symbol of middle life success plays into my own contradictory feelings of being in a home caring for a young child and handling domestic duties. Additionally, as I paint in attempt to integrate my identity, the houses I portray in my my Edinburgh studio reveal my nostalgic longing for my childhood in California. I investigate the modern migratory individual’s fragmentation, in which one must reconcile  and assimilate different aspects of oneself.    Home is a longstanding theme in my work, but always the exterior, always on the outside looking in. The aim of these paintings is to express home as both real and conceptual, to cultivate my own sense of home, and to invite the audience into a space of belonging and interdependence.

Painting:Oil on Canvas

Original:One-of-a-kind Artwork

Size:47 W x 47 H x 2 D in

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