Domestic Landscapes

These paintings are conversations with memory. Whisperings of secrecy, and situations portrayed only in the objects and effects left of relationships. In this series I wanted to capture the ethereal quality of memory, desiring these expressions be both mysterious and whimsically fond. A number of them express the ‘shock’ of realization of gender roles. Some, reflect loneliness of thought and being forgotten, and symbolically, a few hint at aspects of family dysfunction.

“Keith recalled his childhood with vivid imagery: ‘I remember feeling a comfortable numbness much of the time. Our house was big, and when I was small it seemed like it went on forever and ever and had a sort of darkness to it, even in the daytime. It’s funny, when I think of being in my own house; I don’t even see anyone else there. It’s empty.” “I don’t really remember feeling what you would call lonely … I just felt a sort of darkness or emptiness."

- Cloud & Townsend