While painting forms the foundation of my practice, my work also incorporates video and artist books. My graduate show was rooted in a dream diary, from which I extracted and illustrated fragments that stood out. Through this process, I aimed to self-analyse by exploring the symbolic and emotional resonance of these fragments. This theme is one I plan to revisit in future projects. Currently I am returning to a body of work that has yet to be completed that will be part of my first solo exhibition. This work explores the slow disappearance of my mother through dementia, tracing grief and memory through painting, film and artist book, and reflecting the fragmentation and tenderness of this long process. Rather than depicting illness, these works bear witness to love, loss and the subtle erosion of identity over time. Dementia often resists depiction; it is not a singular event but a gradual unmaking. I am trying to hold space for slowness, tenderness and sorrow. Ultimately, this project is both a tribute and an inquiry. To bear witness to her decline and my grief.
