Holding Time

This series of abstracted figurative paintings begins with family photographs—fragments of lived moments, gestures, and relationships held in time. Through painting, these images shift away from documentation and toward something less fixed: memory as it is felt rather than remembered.

The work explores identity through absence, distortion, and emotional residue—how family history shapes us, even when details fade. Figures blur, dissolve, and re-emerge, reflecting the instability of recollection and the quiet ways connection persists across time.