Laguna College of Art + Design

I Remember. I Remember – the scent on my mother carries love and comfort. Even

though she is not physically with me, her blessing and love stay with me in my memories.

Losing my mother is the trigger for me to paint my memories. I experienced a great loss, so I

want to externalize the memories physically to remember. I find narrative in my memories that

evoke particular emotions of love and grief. I dig deeper into these emotional memories related

to specific moments and selected people. Connecting people to daily familiar activity is the

passion of my art genre. My stories have two ways of interpretation. The first layer lends itself to

the more universal interpretation of my work. The next layer involves a personal reflection from

the death of my mother and the waves of grief that I have struggled with that have partly shaped

me into the person I am today. I find my healing from grieving in my paintings. Painting my

memories is a process of self-healing and reflecting on the immutable past in life.