Inspired by personal familial memories, for this series of charcoal drawings I work on accumulation and layers of matter as a way to create visual and poetic images. The physical, real life memories are becoming abstraction. This is a way of taking back control over situations and traumas - situations of love and affection, aggression and anger, and everything in between.
A complex psychological map of emotional memories is created by juxtaposition of matter on the canvas. Sometimes the lines are aggressive, sometimes soft, sometimes there is darkness or light, empty space, fast or slow rhythm. And every layer is significant to the creation of the final structure and the psychologically charged architecture of the piece.
Every piece of the series is a way of letting go, a final action in the present to elevate a memory and give it a visual art status before moving on. And this is why charcoal is significant - wood, burned and transformed in black powder. The symbolism could not be greater.
