LAND
MEMORY COMMISSIONS
land memory paintings are made with earth from a place that holds special meaning for you
they are a way to commemorate new beginnings, hold onto the past, communicate attachment and love, or process change and grief
This is a very personalized process. We'll work together to gather handfuls of soil, clay, or rocks from the place you'd like to commemorate.
I'll grind and distill the earth into fine-art pigments, create a palette to compliment the natural colors, and then use that to create your piece.
"We return to the places we're from; we trample faded corners and pencil in new lines. 'You've grown up so fast,' Robert's mother tells him at breakfast, at dinner. 'Look at you." But she's wrong, thinks Robert. You bury your childhood here and there. It waits for you, all your life, to come back and dig it up."
- Anthony Doerr, Memory Wall
LAND MEMORY COMMISSIONS (selected)
2022
Private Commission, land memory painting in collaboration with artists Bo Bartlett, Betsy
Eby, and Virginia Candler, Wheaton Island, ME
Private Commission, land memory painting in collaboration with two families who occupied
one plot of land in separate decades, Hattiesburg, MS
Private Commission, 4 land memory paintings for family members using earth pigments from their
generational homes in Buffalo, NY and Ireland.
2021
Private Commission, land memory painting (72”x72”) made from southern Louisiana clays and shotgun house colors in collaboration with an first-time home buyer, New Orleans, LA
2020
Private Commission, land memory painting made from deconstructed clam shells in
collaboration with the artist’s father, Matunuck Beach, RI
Private Commission, land memory painting in collaboration with two long-distance friends
who once lived in the same place, Hanover, NH
Private Commission, Louisiana earth pigment painting (48”x60”) made from the banks of
the Mississippi River, Algiers Point, LA
