In 2020, when I created Surreal Memory, I didn’t really understand what I had made. All I knew was that I had made something that I felt represented the time, and represented how I felt in that time. But ultimately, it wasn’t until many years later that I started to realize what Surreal Memory really stood for. It was a representation of how I felt, and a visualization of what that felt like. And I still to this day am very proud of how simple and yet beautiful those images are, how surreal they are, how they depict a memory or a dreamlike state so vividly.
But it was something that started something much bigger in my work. It showed me that if I wanted to understand the world and the humanity around me, I had to look within myself. Surreal Memory taught me that I could really channel how I feel and my mind, and really dig deeper to try and find ways of exploring myself. And I got really addicted to that feeling. I think it’s a feeling that not a lot of us really truly understand, or even try or know how to accomplish, but for me, it was a very addicting feeling.