My works consist of a series of three watercolour pieces titled “Summer Nostalgia”. This collection is a reflection on my longing for the hot summer weather and how these paintings function as a window to a past long gone, presenting nostalgic scenes of locations from my childhood in an attempt to reproduce the feeling of the “perfect moment, with the perfect weather”, as our childhood memories tend to be. These pieces also function as a study on the process of distortion or memories, particularly on romanticising past situations via the lens of childhood ignorance and innocence, where moments of hard labour are later transformed into the idea of fun learning experiences, intense uncomfortable weather is viewed as “ideal” and worn out landscapes are turned into “preserved history”. This series puts the accuracy of the mind into question, reflecting on the contrast between reality and perception by contradicting each beautiful visual with a harsh title.

The first piece of the collection added to this proposal is titled “Broken Staircases”, the second is “Finally Shade” and the third “Hardwork”.