The Editors

Details About 16.5 x 17 inches © 2014 Oil on Wood Cupboard La.cu.na /ləˈk(y)o͞onə/ noun: a gap or blank space in something, a missing part. The thing with memory is that it is imperfect. Details get foggy. Gaps form. Things may be remembered slightly differently than they happened or whole events may be remembered that never happened at all. Then there are the things that stand out in sharp relief against the hazy background. Things that are as fresh as the day they happened. With Lacuna, I’ve set out to explore the erosion of memory as well as the little things that stay with us over a lifetime. As in our minds, things are scattered about- small treasures, personal effects, things forgotten or used up. Tracking a passage through time, these discarded remnants tell a story about what we carry around with us and what we have left- the absences. The holes leave their mark. In life there is a constant movement, a pushing and pulling as the environment recedes and rises again wit