These paintings are about searching for identity through family history. In researching ancestry, we are often given tiny pieces of information through census records, military documents, and tombstones. Our brains struggle to fill in the massive blank spaces – we take forgotten photographs and assign personal ambition to an unknown predecessor. The repetitive coiled shapes in the paintings represent familial mazes – broken and imperfect. These are tarnished memories brightened, distorted, and reinvented.


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