Layers

These layered drawings are about memory and family, about how the past lingers in our present and our future.

They begin with black and white photographs, worn with age and love, and are drawn on sheets of translucent and transparent Dura-Lar. The personalities emerge in black, while the colors of the background are seen through the translucent layers, which mimic the ways old photos and memories fade. The more brightly colored top layers hold dream and fantasy elements.