Composition in Ochre

About this work

This piece began with a single photograph of my grandmother's kitchen — that particular yellow, faded by decades of afternoon sun, became the anchor for everything that followed. I worked the surface in layers over six weeks, thinking constantly about color memory: how certain pigments hold light differently depending on the hour, how ochre reads warm or cool depending on what sits beside it. The lower left quadrant has the most built-up texture; I wanted that area to feel like time itself — sedimented, patient. The canvas is 72 × 96 inches because I needed the scale to match the weight of the memory.