…behaviours, perceptions and bodily sensations. Saved from birth, implicit memories inform our mental processes in response to interpersonal experiences. How we make sense of our past, whether consciously or not, influences our present perceptions of ourselves and how we interact with others.

This body of work is a contemplation of what is passed down from generation to generation. Be it mannerisms, traits, or patterns in behaviour, our inheritance is stored in genetics and memory.

Following a maternal lineage, the ten subjects of these paintings span four generations, great-grandmother, grandmother, mother, aunt, daughter, niece, sister and cousin. Each subject was asked to position their hands in the same repeated interlocked gestures. Left hand touches right alluding to connectedness, things hidden and things shared, alluding to a personal and implied symbolism. This body of work speaks to both the specificity and universality of intergenerational ties and the complexities of attachment relationships.