Transitions is a series of oil paintings and drawings which I began towards the end of my 4th year at Ilam School of Fine Arts and continued through my Masters. This ongoing body of work focuses on liminal spaces and their relation to the search for Third Space, a place at once real and imagined.

As an adult immigrant, I have become divided between my country of birth, the place where I trace my deep roots, and my new country where I have raised my own children. The place which is their home and therefore mine. Between these two belongings I find myself suspended, always moving towards and yet away from.
In this constant state of transition there is an deep longing for a third space, a place to simply be present without obligation or need.
For me light forms a pathway to this space. Light is fundamental to our perception of the material world we inhabit and yet it is intangible. Like the Third Space, it is real but cannot be touched or held fast, only experienced in the moment it becomes.
In the emptiness of liminal spaces, with nothing else to distract, light itself becomes a presence. Transforming the polished floor of a hospital waiting room into a still pool of water, or the concrete wall of a stairwell into a translucent membrane. In that moment, the world is both mundane and magical.