PROJECT DESCRIPTION — Reconstruction in Color
Reconstruction in Color is an ongoing painting series that approaches migration as a shift in perception: the way moving between cultures changes how space is read, remembered, and lived. The work is grounded in urban architecture and everyday environments—streets, windows, façades, and domestic structures that might seem ordinary, yet become psychologically charged through displacement.
These paintings do not document specific places. Instead, they build environments that sit between recognition and estrangement, where architectural fragments carry narrative weight. The recurring motif of the house becomes a site for testing the idea of home—both a promise of belonging and a point of instability.
Color drives the series. Saturated, non-naturalistic palettes are not used as embellishment; they operate as a language for altered perception and emotional contradiction. Through color and slight distortions of form, the work holds a space between reality and imagination, asking how meaning attaches to place—and how “home” is continually constructed, revised, and redefined.
