Grandmother’s Shadow is a part of a series of free form drawings titled Still Life.

Still Life re-contextualizes the traditional meaning of a still life by using the Still Life genre to contemplate the meaning of stillness in art-making, intimate discourse, introspection of personal and ancestral history, spirituality, and meditation. My gouache and colored pencil drawings become assemblages or collages symbolic of these contemplations and the different spiritual influences in my life. The artwork in Still Life specifically references the transmutation of death and rebirth, intimate family-based faith, practices and heirlooms, and my personal relationship to ritual.