The painting encapsulates emotions of love and loss, through thoughts of contemplation mixed with a touch of nostalgia. The idea of letting go in ethereal or corporeal sense is a live struggle for us all. “In the memory of” embodies that struggle where the human seems to be stuck in a memory that’s keeping them bound in one place while physically there is trauma visible on their body. The bird represents our ability to free ourselves from the bind, but the depiction of it as facing down reveals where they stand in their struggle.