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Layering Time
"Time is not fixed; it is alive, unfolding in layers—just like the wax—never still, always becoming"
My work in encaustic and cold wax explores the layered nature of time—its fragments, its insights, and its echoes. Found papers, photographs, colors, and textures settle into the wax like sediment, each carrying moments from my life, some distant, some unexpectedly relevant even now. These layers create a dialogue between the present and the possible, as if the work looks simultaneously at what is unfolding today and what may be whispered from the future.
Wax, with its translucent veils, becomes both guardian and translator of time. Every layer must be fused with heat, allowed to cool, and then built upon again. This slow, deliberate process mirrors the way memories form and reform, how reflections become clearer or more obscured, and how regrets and revelations surface when the image is finally ready to speak.
Time itself is an illusion we agree to inhabit—an architecture of minutes and hours shaped by the sun’s passage and our desire for order. But beneath that structure, time moves differently. It ebbs and flows, dissolves boundaries, and breathes life into what once was and what is yet to come. In my work, time is not fixed; it is alive, unfolding in layers—just like the wax—never still, always becoming.
