Second Life Series

The “Second Life” Series — Letting My Paintings Begin Again

After years of working digitally, I created clipart, built collections, and slowly grew a large archive of digital pieces, and it also means that my original paintings have been kept in folders, in drawers, in carefully stacked piles of paper—finished, complete, and yet somehow paused, and then they became still.

And I began to feel that they weren’t meant to stay that way.

That was the beginning of my “Second Life” series.

This series is not about reproducing my paintings, or turning them into digital versions. It is about transformation. About allowing something that already exists to become something new—something with a different presence, a different purpose, and a different way of being seen.

I began to carefully cut these elements out. At first, it felt like I was taking something apart. But very quickly, I realized I was not undoing the work—I was continuing it. Some of these transformed pieces become small cards, some become hanging decorations.

Each fragment, once separated, carried its own comforting moment. This is the heart of the “Second Life” series. And perhaps most importantly, each piece is one of a kind.

Even when they come from the same original painting set, the way they are cut, arranged, and assembled can never be repeated in exactly the same way. Every piece carries both its past and its transformation within it.

I think of this process as a quiet form of regeneration. And in that, I’ve found a different kind of connection to my work.

The “Second Life” series is still unfolding. It doesn’t follow a strict plan or a final destination. Instead, it grows piece by piece, fragment by fragment—guided by curiosity and a willingness to see old work in a new way.

It has become a way for me to return, not to repeat the past, but to let it evolve. To let each painting begin again, and I’m only at the beginning of where this second life might lead.