asha hall

I recently rediscovered photographs my mother had taken when we had just settled into our family home. Although I had seen the images before, I now saw them in a different light, and found a new appreciation for their erratic compositions and somewhat eerie appeal. These images became the basis of my work, in which I explore my relationship to these photographs, and how that changes as they are redescribed through painting. My paintings allow me to both re-enter a world that is long gone, one without worry and with endless time ahead, but also to find acceptance in the passing of time. I am driven by a longing for my childhood, and a fear of losing those around me as time moves forward. In creating this body of work, I am able to preserve artifacts of my childhood, to freeze them in time and re-physicalize them, thus giving them life once again.