We live on the surface of history. Behind us are generations of people who have inhabited this place, and the lives they lived, the buildings they built, and the experiences they had influence how we live. Likewise, our lives will influence the people who come after us, so we are only a moment on a vast continuum. With these pieces, I hope to evoke the sense of layers of time and place that contribute to the experience of my hometown, Macon, Georgia. I began thinking about this series during Macon’s bicentennial, which led me to explore Macon’s history.

I am inspired by the historical process of archeology in which layers of time overlap and interplay, so the past informs and influences the composition of the present. My works reflect this process by layering colors and materials to depict the accretion of experiences over time. These pieces explore Macon’s complicated history and its ongoing development. Macon is my home and my community, and I want to invite viewers to explore their relationships with place in these paintings.