In Time (II)

My mother gave me some of my childhood artwork she had saved. This series is based on some of those images. One of them appears to be a portrait of me and my mother, made at age 7. Below is that image (see picture of the small crayon art in a notebook).

As with the other art in this series, I decided to see what would happen if I “re-made” that art.

The idea is to not overthink it, to remake the casual drawing my 7-year-old self made, on a 40x40 canvas (see image below). I can’t remember making the original, but I expect I made it at school, in a confined space of time, with a standard set of little-kid crayons.

In the same way that I shifted its sibling painting in Time (I), I wanted to abstract it to something that held the same image, but felt more current. This method of taking something familiar, reconstructing it into something unfamiliar, and then disassembling it to make it something both familiar and unfamiliar is something I will remain interested in; it is in that space that real creation seems to lie, and with it, the tools to see time and memory differently.

40h x 40w x 1.5d (inches); acrylic and oil pastels on canvas