(e)mersion Exhibition statement This body of work explores the tension between memory and presence. Through layered abstraction each canvas is a fragment of a shifting landscape, emotional and remembered. Though individual works holds their own rhythm, they each explore variations of landscape, pathways and memories eroding with time. Together they trace a movement though space, from the vertical rise of organic form to the wide expansive terrain, pathways, and memories of a place once familiar. At the heart of the work is the desire to capture the feeling of freedom that comes from being outside, untethered, open to the quiet pull of open spaces. The process is as much about exploration as creation, working through the landscape to find what feels true. These works are not depictions, but translations of atmosphere, of gesture, contemplation, and the timeless pulse of the invisible world.