Abstractions

These works are created in co-authorship between mother and daughter, who, while living with dementia, also live with abstraction—this mode of thought that dissolves the contours of things.

The series investigates gesture, color, and sewing as forms of pictorial thought. Some images originate from the physical studio; others, from digital projections, rehearsals of future (or not) works. Concrete or virtual, all inhabit the same field of experimentation, where painting expands and making merges with imagining.

Sewing household fabrics is perhaps an attempt to stitch together the memory that is unraveling, to contain the matter that insists on being lost.

The digitally created images—visions of works that exist and do not exist—inhabit the interval between remembering and forgetting, between the real and the invented, where meaning no longer matters, as long as color and affection continue to pulsate.