Monday Mass

160 x 120 cm
Acrylic on Canvas

After waking from a coma, I found myself questioning the nature of my own memories and their “validity”.

Some memories felt vivid, like a lived experience, yet I couldn’t be certain if they were, in fact, real, dreamed,

or maybe even fragments of an alternate reality.

I explore the relationship between memories, time, reality, and imagination. Painting a pixelation of

photographs I have taken, and the memories they keep, I reflect on our relationship to memory: fixed or

resolute from a distance but as we try to focus on details, this certainty becomes blurred or “pixelated”.

The surreal, three-eyed fish moves into the piece, imagination intruding on recollection. Maybe our

imagination is a glimpse into an alternate reality - what is reality? Is it solely what is observable, or, once we

imagine something, do we bring it into existence and make it “real”?