"This must be the place"

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This painting reflects the different versions of myself that I gradually left behind as I moved from a familiar life in Canada into the unknown territory of Mexico. Each figure represents a moment of transformation—states of being that emerged, dissolved, and reshaped me along the journey.

I created this work during a period of profound rediscovery, as I was redefining myself as a woman within a new cultural and emotional landscape. I was alone and afraid, yet at the same time deeply attentive to the subtle beauty revealed through the process of displacement and change. The body appears as a shifting territory, marked by memory, vulnerability, and resilience—an inner map shaped by what is left behind and by what begins to take form.

This work speaks to the experience of inhabiting transition: that space between roots and horizons where identity is no longer fixed and is constantly becoming. It is within this suspended state that I found both fragility and strength, allowing the journey itself to become a place of meaning.

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This Must be the place

Acrylic, ink, graphite and pastel on canvas 

40 x 60 cm