About Yesterday’s Clouds:

This work is part of an ongoing series of soft paintings, unbound from rigid stretcher bars and taut surfaces and instead taking the form of intimate and familiar domestic objects. Like a pillow, they are meant to be held. Something to clutch, to hug, to rest upon. To soften is to become vulnerable to affect. To lean into tenderness, ambiguity, and care as subversive acts. Yesterday’s Clouds emphasizes what is often dismissed as feminine through decoration, pattern, color, and small scale, creating space to unsettle rigid identities and hardened logics. Softness opens room for grief, desire, joy, and vulnerability. This work, along with others in the series, asks what and who we hold onto in times of loss and how care itself can become a radical gesture. By replacing surface tension with give, monumentality with touch, and distance with intimacy, these works explore interiority as a site of quiet resistance.