Fragments From A Gauguin

We interpret our past in fragments, scenes, and memories. This work titled Fragments from a Gauguin was named so because it evokes a memory of being in the Museum of Modern Art and admiring the painting of Paul Gaugain during the period he painted in French Polynesia. To another viewer, it may look like a colorful chair or something else. Memory is, in essence, the fragments of a past that may have changed how we now view it. This and the other work in the collection are all mixed media and digital paintings. In some of the work I have used collage elements to introduce artifacts like postcards and vintage photographs. In an attempt to transport my viewer back into a shared past or one of the fragments from my past.