Rose Duncan
Exploring human nature through familiar scenes and experiences, these pieces serve as an intimate glimpse into personal history. Each charming or perhaps unsettling moment forces the viewer to wrestle with the past, the present and the future. Investigating the notion of memory, I illustrate our universal desire to seek significance. We all long for something more. C. S. Lewis comments that this desire is often diminished with the label “nostalgia” and is rooted in a superficial longing to reenact our pasts. Temporarily exiled to the other side of the eternal door, we “now feel cut off” from the divine yet attempt to bridge this estrangement with capturing mortal beauty.