Layers of light: Monotypes from the streets of Mérida, Mexico

Embracing process-based abstractions, I am using layers of pigment and form to evoke the ways we experience weathered memories about place and space. My process is one of excavation—where emotion, experience, and time meet in layered form. My works chart overlapping layers of consciousness held in place: what we remember, what fades, what returns altered. The works are made in such a way that they gradually build into textured, emotionally resonant fields. The monotype-paintings in this series are particularly influenced by the light-filled streets of Mérida, Mexico where layers of both worn and bright colors dapple and blur. I saw cement and wattle walls, echoes of Mayan statues, cobblestones, decaying wood shutters, and dancing green fronds shooting out shadows in the summer heat. There is vulnerability in this work, but also insistence that endures. Each print offers a tactile intimacy—gestures that surface, recede, and blur into one another, holding space for the ambiguous and the unseen. Selected works from the series presented below along with images of spaces that influenced me.