Displaced Nostalgia

The painting operates in the "future-past." It is not a nostalgic look at a happy memory; it is a hauntological look at the persistence of that memory in a world where it no longer fits. The subjects are not "lost" in the traditional sense—they are simply existing in the space between what was and what will never be again.

This piece refuses to provide a floor. By keeping the subjects floating, forcing the viewer to experience the same vertigo felt by those who long for a home that is "nowhere near."