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Like the book as a whole, this painting considers archives and history, both through subject matter and through material. A study of interior spaces, this painting visits the site in which the book was made, bathing the space in a deep purple hue. The subject is the space that I have become so intimately connected to over lockdown: my bedroom, my studio, my study space, my workplace, kitchen, etc. 

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The space contains not only my personal history, but also that of those who lived here in the past. I purchased this bed from the person who lived here before me, and she from the person who lived there before her. This room and its walls are an archive, containing past, present, and future all within its walls. The use of purple considers my place within a larger timeline of history.

 

This piece is painted on a padded shipping envelope addressed to somebody who no longer lives at my address. After doing some searching, I found that they had not lived here in over ten years. Though we never actually inhabited the home at the same time, material ghosts of their presence (like their spam mail delivered to my house) connects the two of us over space and time.