Painting Archive

I consider painting core to my practice and am attached to the medium because it allows me to represent aspects of myself, primarily through affect. However, painting, especially oil painting, has limitations in creating a narrative. Painting can’t always tell the entire story, the way cinema can. Nor can painting capture a moment in time, because of the hours it takes to capture that “moment”. The archives include works in progress and completed work. Through my painting, I grapple with the contradiction of the medium - one that can effectively represent states of female embodiment but, paradoxically, fail to create a coherent narrative of self.