Artwork title : Nobody Has Ever Measured, Not Even Poets, How Much the Heart Can Hold (2)

In this series, the artist engages themes of memory and desire. Partially drawn and erased bodies float in the atmosphere – across the surface of the canvas – dreamlike, almost appearing from the ether, evoking a distant real or perhaps imagined memory. A dream.  Muted tones and thin washes of paint add to the atmospheric, delicate quality. Intentionally leaving areas of the raw linen canvas exposed brings the material to the fore, becoming part of the painting.

What are the aspects we don’t see when we look at an object—aspects present nonetheless? For example, text by its very nature refers to images that we cannot see, that are not there, but that we can imagine when we read a book. The artist is interested in presenting the absence rather than the content – provoking thought - and leaves it to the viewer to fill those gaps with his own knowledge, history, and imagination.

In her work, the artist prefers to play on the idea of ambiguity. The liminal, the spaces in between. Of the absent or hidden, the imperceptible, the unspoken – the things felt but unseen. Perhaps a complicit glance, a brief and silent accord. Moments that transcend time, space, language, and culture. Memory. And what remains.