Tree Within 2021 - 2025
Updated: Jul 25
Below the Surface, 21'' x 14.7'', 2025 original Below the Surface, 21'' x 14.7'', 2025 original Still Blue, 30'' x 26'', 2025 original Still Blue, 30'' x 26'', 2025 original Unfolding, 26'' x 30'', 2025 original original In Memory, 36''x 22'', 2022 original Daylight, 15.7" x 16.7", 2021 original Daylight, 15.7" x 16.7", 2021 original Secret Garden, 15.7" x 16.7'', 2021 original Secret Garden, 15.7" x 16.7'', 2021 original Imprint, 14.4" x 16.5", 2021 original Imprint, 14.4" x 16.5", 2021 original Portal, 19.5" x 17.5", 2021 original Portal, 19.5" x 17.5", 2021 original Woodland, 15'' x 17.5'', 2021, original Woodland, 15" x 17.5", 2021 original Blue Tree, 11.5'' x 9 original
Handmade and Overpainted Photocollages
Limited Fine Art Prints of the Original are available upon request
This body of work is created with many layered and fragmented photographs that I have printed on different photo papers and rearranged as a collage. Some of them are also overpainted with symbol-like drawings that react to the photographs and individual compositions with a more gestural and emotional note.
Like photographic x-rays they explore a complex map of human existence. Through the metaphor of the tree I inquire how experiences of home and place are stored and imprinted deep inside of us. How do we access our inner memories? How do we try to hold on to, erase or reinvent them? Which events are so profound that they define us for the rest of our lives? The process of remembering is like traversing through a dense forest in search of insight. Through the overlapping, layering and overpainting of my fragmented images, I’m trying to recreate this intricate experience. The resulting imaginary landscapes are intimate and personal meditations of life; a silent retreat outside becomes inside and inside becomes outside.