In Cartography of Memory, I explore how the past takes shape within us through recollection, loss, and change. Layers of gray, white, blue, and orange form a landscape that feels both architectural and fluid. Vertical lines suggest boundaries and pathways, while scattered circles become points of orientation within the shifting surface.

Handwritten marks emerge beneath the painted layers, adding traces of human presence without offering a story to decipher. A large pale form moves through the composition, suggesting a passage whose course remains uncertain. Areas of clarity give way to obscured layers, echoing the uneven ways we remember: some experiences remain vivid, while others fade or change each time we revisit them.

Through this painting, I ask whether a life can ever truly be mapped. Memory itself becomes the map: incomplete and constantly changing, yet capable of connecting where we have been with who we are becoming.

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Cartography of Memory

2026

Acrylic on canvas

30 × 48 in.

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Abstract painting with vertical orange lines, blue circular shapes, and scribbled white strokes on a gray background, with white text sections and a black signature in the bottom right corner.