Don't Get Lost
Created as a quiet offering to my daughter, this work holds the fragile map of where she comes from. Faces of grandparents, fragments of letters sent across borders, and traces of a language once spoken at home are transferred onto a worn, grey surface that feels both protective and wounded.
A section of the canvas is cut and left hanging — a torn gesture that carries the weight of homesickness and the fear of forgetting. It is a small rupture that opens into a larger absence, the kind that migration leaves inside the body long after departure.
Through fading images, muted tones, and layered marks, Don’t Get Lost becomes an act of preservation: a reminder that heritage is not only remembered in stories, but carried in silence, in distance, and in the enduring need to belong.
Acrylic, charcoal, paper, transferred photographs and handwritten letter fragments on 16"x 40"x 2" stretched canvas, 2020.