PLACES I CAN'T GO BACK TOO.

2021 - 2022

My current work explores ideas of changed memories, especially due to covid and world events. In recent times, the way I have interacted with society during the pandemic has affected the way I have been looking at the past. Since covid has started, I have been looking into the recent past (1970-2000) a lot more than normal. Reflecting on my new worldview has been affecting my views of the past, where we did not social distance or wear masks. The ways we interact as society has totally shifted. Yet, I change them as I think about them over and over, changing the memory. The current work is based on found photos of families and people I do not know. I have drawn on top of photographs, to place my thoughts and my reaction to them in the past with the current world view. Then I take these changed imagines and paint them. I want to react to situations while keeping them anonymous. Looking at these images strikes me in the way life used to be, in the way we grew up with our parents or how families used to have large gatherings at Christmas. To illustrate my thoughts and my reaction to them in the past with the current world view.

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in a gallery setting, i also created an installation to go along with the pieces of my living room during covid.