“What is important now is to recover our senses. We must learn to See more, to Hear more, to Feel more” – Susan Sontag

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Nostalgia combines the Greek words “nostos” (homecoming) and “algos” (pain).

How can a painting define and explore a visceral space of transition and reflection on nostalgia and identity? The painting series  is a moving of private sensation of nostalgia and identity  into public realm: the feeling of lines, colors, and texture navigate us through visible forms of closeness, and of hope of trying to grasp and hold onto a sentiment of shared spaces of  identity. The paintings exist as a language of the in-between space of what is visible and invisible between us. By sharing through an opening of space, the painting can exist as a way of understanding and communicating with each other through the visible space.

The series of abstract paintings explore fragments of identity , and of the existence of a visual relationship of in-between spaces of remembrance and of imagination in relation to  the  notion of nostalgia. 

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The same two lines never exist, just like nature, they change continuously. Every line has its own personality, and singularity, growing steadily out of a center force; collecting energy on its path, a particular nerve and sensibility develops. It points me into a flow of everchanging directions. However, trying to shape a line,  or yearning for the before, will only throw me off balance. Just like waves or  a new day, I may never fully understand where one breaks or ends as I draw my attention outwards into unknown territories. 

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The painting confirms stability in its static structure. The aim is to transform the static into a moving, dynamic space. A balancing act between stability and instability where the line for instance, continues onto the surrounding wall. Children scribble without being taught, then, we are educated to draw a straight line. Scribbling can be viewed as a form of childhood nostalgia, of a sensation of freedom  and innocence. The scribble bounds the world with a meaning to everyone and yet it means something else to each one of us. The lines represent a moving of private sensations into a public realm. A feeling can accompany the line or it can become the line. The painting changes with time, as I draw new lines onto a painting and one onto a new surrounding wall. Understanding it as a way to grasp the intimateness of lines and color relationships and navigating my way around my own identity and experience of nostalgia.