About this work:

This work centres on a Sargassum-afflicted beach I encountered in St. Kitts while visiting family, returning to the Caribbean for the first time in 8 years. The arrival of Sargassum challenged my idealised memory of the landscape, turning it into something that embodied change. I was struck by a strange feeling of otherness while looking at the impact of Sargassum, a feeling that it was out of place, an intruder, but somehow still belonged to the landscape more completely than I did. In painting the increasingly pervasive presence of Sargassum, I am confronting this notion of belonging and the tension of returning to a "home" that has palpably changed in my absence.

My practice examines how internal and geographical landscapes shape one another, how memory and perception inform our experience of place, and how environmental deterioration becomes legible through acts of documentation.