A confirmed cinaphile, I’m interested in how society identifies with film and television narratives on an intimate level. How we incorporate stories on love, success, or morality into our lives and play them out both consciously and unconsciously. My figurative watercolor work in the past has focused on identity and self perception. They combine outward judgements on our bodies with the inner fantasy world of how we would like to be perceived through fashion and identification. In my newest work I am looking at narratives themselves with a focus on endings both through watercolor and video. The pieces in this exhibition are the fade out ‘end scenes’ in various films re-imagined in more privately epic ways. Our relationships with narratives are so ingrained that we often fail to recognize how we enact them. These pieces are off-screen endings, meditations on finality in more private terms. They look at the space of cinematic endings from the position of genre, death, relationships, and finality. Ultimately all endings allude to death, a set time frame is what enables meaning and a fantastic wider reality.
