It began with beaches I remember, places I’ve visited around the world that stayed with me long after I left. Each painting is named after a real beach, so every painting becomes a place. If you placed all of those names onto a map, one by one, they would begin to trace a journey.

Together, the paintings create my own map of the sea. Not really a map of geography, but a map of memory, of water, light, color, and places I keep returning to in my mind.

I’m not trying to recreate the beach as it appeared. I’m painting the way it lives in my memory. Sometimes what remains is only a color, a shape, a movement, or a feeling that stayed.

Memory simplifies a place. Some details disappear while others become strangely vivid. As the series grows, coastlines that are far apart begin to feel connected, becoming fragments of one continuous sea.

A Map of the Sea is a record of those fragments, a personal geography shaped by where I have been, what I remember, and what continues to return.