How do you create a sense of belonging?
How do you create a sense of belonging?
Paintings and prints based on the abstracted industrial landscape of Seattle.
My belief in the value and tradition of drawing is fundamental to this work. I draw an object hundreds of times before abstracting the image, internalizing the shapes until I am able to recreate them blind, through spatial knowledge and muscle memory.
“We now know that memories are not fixed or frozen, like Proust’s jars of preserves in a larder, but are transformed, disassembled, reassembled, and recategorized with every act of recollection.”
Oliver Sacks
Abstraction is about observation, memorization and an intense process of iteration and exploration.
Each piece builds upon the last, echoes of themselves. They are mile markers along my journey as I explore my adopted city. Every object transports me to a specific time and place on the river, encapsulating that memory forever.
“Could it be, then, that the very fallibility of memory is essential to our combinatorial creativity and to the mechanics of the slot machine of ideation? To steal like an artist might be, after all, the default setting of the brain.”
-Maria Popova