Fragments in Progress: A First Look at My Newest Series

Dispersed Fragments: Navigating Memories

The emotional search for what still remains

It’s been a while since my last post. This new series of paintings is the result of a long process of gathering, recovering and discovering.

It has taken time to move through the drafts and find the right conceptual form for these pieces, but I am finally ready to share a glimpse into how they evolved.

The Heart of the Work

At the heart of this series is the emotional search for what still remains.

Instead of each painting representing just one distinct memory, these canvases capture the way different moments, childhood photos, travel fragments and emotions bleed into one another. It gets hard to separate them, so they live together on the canvas, surrounded by areas of blur as different thoughts and images collide.

A Non-Linear Story

This series is intentionally non-cohesive because memory is not a straight line; These paintings are a map of the messy, beautiful process of trying to “keep” what we can, or what we love.

What to Expect: A Visual Language

In this series, botanical anchors form the foundation of every painting, serving as sharp points of clarity against a soft atmospheric blur. Built around this constant element is a vocabulary of painted symbols, including scaled-up staples, pearl-head pins, archival silhouettes and pink oil pastel. These elements surface only when a specific memory calls for them.

Moving Beyond the Canvas

I’m also trying something different this time. To bring these pieces to life in the digital space, I’m mixing my paintings with motion animations and typography. I want to take you deeper into the storytelling.

For the font, I chose CoFo Raffine. Its fluid curves and elegant structure mirror the organic shapes in my paintings, allowing the text to feel less like an overlay and more like a natural extension of the movement on the canvas.