Where My Mom Lives 2025

Where My Mom Lives looks at the institutional spaces of dementia care, where time often feels unstable — days blur together for both residents and visitors. The paintings take on this atmosphere of suspension, drawing on fragments of memory and routine but twisting them into something disorienting. A bright, synthetic palette of blues, pinks, and yellows resists sentimentality. Instead of comfort, these colors expose disorientation and neglect, transforming familiar interiors, like dining rooms, into uneasy sites of care.

At the same time, the series points to larger systemic conditions: underfunded facilities, exhausted staff, and the economic structures that shape both public and private care. These works are not nostalgic; they are acts of exposure showing how dignity is compromised, how care is mismanaged, and how the failures of a system surface in everyday spaces.