This piece is from a series called “Balance,” which I have been working on throughout the pandemic -- a period of time that has many of us feeling decidedly unbalanced. With so many different traumas occurring at the same time — rising COVID case counts, Black lives being taken by police and the violence arising from the protests, our entire west coast being consumed by fire, and an election unprecedented in its stakes — the only way to persevere is to compartmentalize. Compartmentalizing for too long can result in feeling like we have multiple identities. My painting creates balance that would not stand in real life but is made possible within the context of a painting.
- Subject Matter: Abstract