After the deaths of my grandmother and father, I was left alone to not only bear the emotional burden of loss but the legal and financial responsibility as well. Navigating the logistics of death was scary, isolating, and I never could have imagined dealing with it so soon in my life.
Nevertheless, in my moment of greatest isolation, I reached out for connection in any way that I could get it. As an artist, I felt the desire to use my work as a way of sharing my challenges with dealing with the deaths in my family. My paintings also allowed me to process my emotions by integrating practice with experience and allowing my artistic style to evolve alongside me. In this piece, I began using unfamiliar painting techniques that would reflect the unfamiliar situation I had found myself in. The shards of canvas that I created lend themselves well to the shattered and scattered fragments of postmortem responsibility that have circled my family in a vicious and seemingly neverending cycle.
