This series of paintings examines change. Returning to Los Angeles after
a two-and-a-half year
absence, I found things considerably altered. Lucky's, my family's
favorite local supermarket, was gone, replaced, to my dismay, by
the national chain Albertson's. The differences continued at home.
My house seemed smaller than I remembered it. An existing vague awareness
of my grandmother's failing health became vividly real when she suddenly
could no longer recognize me. Though I'd known that my cousin now
slept in my childhood room, this trip made that news real and tangible
for the first time. At this point my work began to explore transition.
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