Family Chain

Family Chain explores the themes of grief, memory, and honoring through portraiture, focusing on transforming family photo archives into paintings that honor my aunt. Revisiting intimate snapshots of her life, I strive to bridge a connection between the living and the deceased, exploring how memories and the afterlife intersect. Through these paintings, I aim to use the colour blue to reflect upon the evolution of memories, while capturing the essence of familial and emotional connections. The inclusion of halos and the obituary card, ties back to religious and personal relationships, emphasizing the complex feelings of remembrance, reverence, and loss. Representing my unresolved grief serves as an expressive form and continuation of envisioning her spirit. This work serves as a personal journey and is a meditation on the role of portraiture and how it allows us to preserve memories of the ones we have lost.