Cascais: A Study in Passing

48 x 84 in / 121.92 x 213.36 cm

acrylic on canvas

2025

“This painting comes from a weathered pink wall I saw in Cascais, Portugal. What caught my attention were the details left by time—the chipped paint, the dirt, and the small frame on the wall that now holds nothing. It feels like a trace of something that used to be there, but is now gone. On the other side, I painted a large frame around the door, almost like treating it as a portrait. By doing this, I wanted to draw attention to something ordinary, to ask if framing changes the way we see it. For me, the work is about memory and presence, about how buildings carry both what is still here and what has already disappeared.”