"Wraith Shadows" - Original

Wraith Shadows 80cm X 120CM Mixed Media on wood Panel This piece is from the exhibition "Lest We Forget" Lest We Forget        I had a friend once who was convinced she could change her past more than herfuture, just by forgetting. That recollection was my starting point. This exhibition is anexamination of what I thought a post covid world would be (from the point of view oflockdown) and what it has been. I began by reimagining characters I had created prior to the pandemic, characters who seemed to be in the midst of something catastrophic, like the pandemic. However, when I first imagined these characters, their dignity wasinviolable; they were resilient and almost immutable in the face of adversity. Now, in2024, they re-emerge. They are recognizable for the most part, but they are not the same. Their forms are incomplete, they have gaping voids replaced by shadow and silhouette. Details are replaced by rudimentary sketches, and memories of parts which are no longer present. They ha