the color of home 

This series was festering inside after a long stretch of feeling homesick during a period of 10 years in Atlanta, hoping to return to the Bay Area. The land and the natural color palettes of the Bay are important parts of my learned methods of self soothing and grounding. While away, I didn’t realize how I had cut myself off from that. Led by a deeply subconscious, internal need to heal, I felt the strong urge to obsessively paint it, because I couldn’t have it around me in the real world. Through painting, I began to eternalize these color palettes, abstracting them from form and letting the palette itself become the object. the color of home is intended to serve as both a present meditation -- a moment of home eternalized on the canvas as a grounding tool, as well as a meditation on memory.