While two separate series are on display, my work ultimately weaves together personal narratives as an act of remembering, honoring, and preserving the landscapes and spaces in which I was raised. My paintings explore how these spaces serve as confluences of relationships, history, and memory for my family and a rural community. They memorialize and elevate seemingly mundane places that serve as the foreground to life’s complexities and beauty.
One series delves more into my family’s gas station that was sold this year and stitches together different eras and people I’ve met in this business. The other series focuses on the body of water that my family has constructed their lives around and that has served as the backdrop of my childhood.
