My artistic practice confronts a paradox that exists between the acts of remembering and forgetting memories of fear as elements of the same process. My work is engaged in bringing alive and erasing memories at the same time, where forgetting is understood as an act that does not leave blank spaces in memory – it is a practice that transforms, reshapes and overwrites, inevitably leaving marks and traces that might appear disconnected, unreadable, and without evident meaning. I have been using drawing and erasing within the same process in order to map fear, creating images that resemble traces and marks of reshaped unwanted memories, which might seem to be hidden, destroyed or disappearing. The resulting drawings are delicate and subtle, demanding a certain amount of effort on the part of the viewer. They have a serene, uncanny and calm presence that belies the uneasiness of the subject matter that drives them.

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