“Time is priceless, yet it costs us nothing. You can do anything you want with it, but you can’t own it. You can spend it, but you can’t keep it. And once you’ve lost it, there is no getting it back. It’s just gone”
I created this body of work as a response between my fathers artwork and my own. While creating other bodies of work I was given my fathers art portfolio and I immediately became enthralled with his images and drawings. They are reminiscent of my drawings and my style and the connection was undeniable. My only option was to explore a combination of his work and my own. Having never met him I knew I had to create a body of work that shows the collaboration that formed.
By placing my imagined worlds together with his drawings I have created a new connection to the past while also thinking of the things I will leave behind to my future lineage. As time continually passes me by I tend to think of the future and what it will hold for me. In the creation of my art I found them to become a breadcrumb trail leading me back through the history of self. I choose to use images of myself to show this tormented persona that is desperately seeking a way to stop time and to hold onto every moment.