WHERE I’VE BEEN // WHERE I’M GOING
Aerial Landscape — Watercolor, Gouache, and Colored Pencil Paintings
Home and Identity are often intertwined. For me, home was concrete and fixed for many years. Raising children and becoming a part of my community created a persona that I wholly embraced.
As my children have taken flight, so have I; Yet, not with the same sense of permanence. With freedoms I haven’t experienced in decades and the confinement of the pandemic behind me, I’ve been exploring these ideas of home and identity in new and unexpected ways.
This series follows this journey towards what’s next. The larger issue is that “what’s next” is still ambiguous. The aerial perspective highlights the enormity of the world, its cities, countrysides, gardens, and homes. Detailing that my choices for the singular idea of a place to land is enmeshed with the roots I’ve established already and the tether they still hold over my ability to make the next big choice.