Oil on Cotton Canvas
2025
‘Jenny Dancing with Her Ghosts' explores grief as a place one keeps returning to. She stands within the ruins of an old home, a dream like imagined space where memory, time, and loss merge into one another. She dances with the people she once loved, now absent, yet still felt.
The painting explores what a heavy but beautiful memory feels like, where grief is not loud, but soft, lingering, and intimate. The ruins of her home symbolize what remains after loss. The structure is still standing. The memory of where her loved ones were is still there, but altered by time, carrying the weight of what once was. Her back is turned to the viewer, inviting distance, showing how she is with us, but lost in memory rather than fully present.
This work is not about mourning in its raw beginning, but about the continued weight of living with absence, of learning how to move through life while carrying the memory of those who are gone. The dance becomes a quiet ritual of longing.