Project: No one is big enough to hold what happens to us...
 

Dates: 2026 - Present

Description:

What started off as a series of drawings in a journal using objects arranged on my coffee table as a metaphor for story telling became a further exploration of the island theme from previous paintings that were inspired by Thomas Moran's The Lotus Eaters. Still fascinated with the idea of being on the island looking outward, I began to think about how the objects in the drawings told a story about emotional, physical, and historical place. Over time, I began to  recall the memory of the object and paint the feeling that it evoked, sometimes anchoring the work with a table, sometimes just allowing the dream-objects to anchor themselves to each other.

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The project title of these still life-inspired paintings comes from The Chronology of Water by Lydia Yuknavitch. It is a book I have read several times and appreciate for the way the author translates her own being through time using water as a vehicle. 

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These paintings work in a similar way; they are about how objects and memory process what we carry and experience, often creating a yearning or melancholy mixed with humor and play and poignant remembrance of that which we cannot hold permanent.   

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