Statement
Familiar, Unfamiliar Landscapes is a collection of work I began in 2026 to question the nature of memory and how we interpret the world around us. Each piece is a vague revisiting of a familiar place I have experienced, reconstructed not through direct observation, but through memory and the impressions that remain.
To execute the work, I rely on an eclectic selection of materials, reassigning their meaning and purpose as I explore the space between abstraction and reconstructed reality through landscape. These materials become part of the interpretation, allowing familiar places to take on unfamiliar forms.
The work also questions our ability to see things as they truly are. Memory is imperfect, shaped by experience, emotion, and time. What we remember is often only a partial understanding of what once existed and is only a shadow of what truly is. In this sense, each landscape becomes both a recollection and a hopeful reinterpretation, something recognizable yet uncertain.
“For now we see through a glass, darkly...”
1 Corinthians 13:12 (KJV)
1 Corinthians 13:12 (KJV)
"Whitecap" colored pencil, graphite, wallpaper, Gel stick, acrylic / 2026
"October Skies Forever" colored pencil, graphite, wallpaper, Gel stick, acrylic / 2026
"somewhere beyond the pine trees" colored pencil, wallpaper, acrylic / 2026
"Eternal Architecture" colored pencil, wallpaper, Graphite, acrylic / 2025
"the other mountain" colored pencil, graphite, wallpaper, Gel stick, acrylic / 2025
"Beyond the horizon" colored pencil, wallpaper, acrylic / 2025
"at the beach" colored pencil, wallpaper, acrylic, whiteout / 2025
"beneath the wake" colored pencil, wallpaper, acrylic, colored pencil / 2025
