I study the patterns and rhythms of the landscape to search for and reflect on the traces of my forbears’ and family’s presence. The work acts as a recollection, and evokes my sense of longing for and belonging to a certain place and time.

The prints are built up in layers of ink and color, stacking visual information from different sources. Sometimes woodblocks are layered with monotype, sometimes the compositions are open, and sometimes they are dark, dense and more thickly layered. The images reveal and obscure places, mimicking the act of remembering in which the brain selects certain images and hides others.