During the pandemic, I tend to look back to the past and hold onto the experiences that will shape myself and the future. This process of haunting memories helps me to be more appreciative of the present and gives me the courage to carry forward into the future. By looking at the past, trips to Asia, Canada, Cuba, and Key West are my inspirations in creating moments that form who I am.

          These memories allow me to create an inner fantasy world through drawing on tracing paper, painting on canvas, and doing traditional Chinese painting on rice paper. First, I use contour lines of different scenes created with ink on the tracing paper. Layering these drawings is my process to document and rescue these moments from oblivion, but then I start to accept oblivion is part of the beauty of memory and it makes the past more precious. This layering simulates how memory works in my mind, some details are clear, and some fuzzy. Transferring these drawings onto the canvas with colorful shapes and lines, depict disparate scenes and a range of my emotions.