Wash Me Away
mixed media on panel or canvas (2025-present)
Wash Me Away is an ongoing, process-based series that explores the complex nature of memory, belonging, and migratory experience. Through an improvisational and intuitive process, I build up and rework abstract images, unearthing new landscapes that reframe memories into new beginnings and forge a sense of place. My methodology mirrors the natural forces of geology and water, where constant change reveals what lies beneath.
My practice involves the meticulous reworking of images and found visual information. I sift through fragmented memories, rediscovering and imagining places as I build up, paint, scrape, and draw until abstract landscapes emerge. The flow of my process, much like the flow of a river, is about transformation. These layered composites blend disparate geographical elements from my life—from the rice fields of my Philippine hometown, the vast horizons of Saskatchewan, and the urban alleyways of Toronto, to the cliffs of Banff, the cathedrals of Oaxaca, and the landscapes of northern Thailand. Each mark and layer becomes an act of mending what has been discarded or faded, seeking connection and resolution where disparate memories find tangible form.