oil on canvas, 12 × 16, 2026

Emerging within the sea as a landscape of memory, the artist’s childhood self appears in translucent form beside her present self. The painting creates a visual dialogue between who she once was and who she has become. Through this layered image, the work suggests how earlier experiences remain within the self not as fixed memories, but as emotional traces that continue to shape identity, perception, and one’s relationship to the present.