Gina Leon 

Artist Statement

I am interested in memory and connection. Connecting the Dots - a series of 100 pieces –This series began as a triptych that evolved into a collection of 60 interconnected pieces. I have a sense it will be completed at 100 interconnected pieces. When I started this project, I was intent on painting a narrative that says something about connection. I was interested in the delicate little fibers that bridge together, people, places and thing. Sometimes these are the subtle and unspoken transitional moments in life somewhere between memory and self, memory and place, memory and people. What I discovered is that memories are fragmented, but layered, the definition of self is forever changing, and places hold memories, as much as people hold them.