"Often inspired by literature, memories and the natural world, I explore painting as a narrative of longing and remembrance, conjuring an intimate storytelling that extends to the universality of being humans and being intrinsically connected with one another as part of nature. In this body of work I depict the transient, elderly people and flowers in a desperate attempt at recovering something that I feel has been lost or is being lost forever. Memory, fragile and delusive, plays a big part in my process. Its fragility and capriciousness is somehow mirrored in the use of breakable, weak surfaces such as cardboard or paper to paint on. Also, reusing these materials, in our day and age, speaks of the power of community and sustainability. They make a statement by themselves as part of a revitalization of our life cycles and a communal, shared handling of waste. Like flowers, like the passing of the years in a human life, the cardboard boxes and the recovered paper jointly tell a story of becoming, resilience and regeneration."