This project was from a solo exhibition in 2021 at the Athenaeum Gallery in Alexandria, Virginia.

Intended to offer a moment of reverence and remembrance for lives lived and lost, I invite the viewer to experience color and light while holding in memory and reverence our collective human losses and collective gratitude. Each piece is painted on Dibond cut with a CNC router. On the verso, Flashe paint in ruby rouge casts a subtle glow on the wall behind.

Healing is a necessary human experience. Our collective conscience has been trying to find healing in two extremes: one, with the coronavirus emphasizing death in isolation, we are robbed of healing, of processing forward with the dead, moving as a group with a body from one realm (life) into the other (death); and, two, as we come together in protest to voice concern over injustices in our communities we are, among other notions, moving en masse together to heal. Throughout history and today the candlelight vigil is used as a dignified way of uniting a community through honoring, celebrating, memorializing, showing support for a cause, and for collective healing.  

Of the initial 30, many are still available. Contact me for how to purchase.