Rock Garden 1 (4"×6")

These small rock gardens are part of a larger body of work titled “How Do You Hold a Memory,” painted during the spring and summer of 2022.

I live with neurological disease, and I care for a parent with dementia. As humans, we build routines, skills, and habits through repetition; it is these same patterns that degrade as dementia progresses. As I ruminated on the convergence of memory and identity, my attention turned toward the tradition of cairns, standing stones, and other intentional rock formations. Memory is both fleeting and resilient; what will be remembered when only the stones remain? To highlight this contradiction of my weird human experience, I painted steadfast stones with ethereal watercolors, representing solid minerals with transparent pools of pigment.

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Each of these pieces is painted with artisan grade gouache on vintage dictionary pages. Each 4x6-inch piece is matted and will fit in a standard 8x10 frame.

There is only one of each study available.

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