This series of work initially started with a theme of finding beauty in imperfectionand transience. This idea was based on the term wabi-sabi, the Japanese aesthetic ofimperfection, incompleteness, and impermanence. Ironically, it felt so perfect at thetime to create an imperfect project, to free myself from the constraints of perfectionismI have always strived for. Little did I know that this series would lean most heavily onthe theme of transience, given the current circumstances in my life.
Following the death of two close family members, I was sent into deepphilosophical exploration as I grieved the loss of my loved ones. This body of workserved as a place to work through all this grief, and gave me a chance to delve intoquestions about life and death. I found myself constantly revisiting a place within mewhere memory seems to live. My goal for this body of work was to capture the feelingsof old memories, the ones that seem to grow fuzzy when you focus on them too hard.Life feels all the more impermanent when all that is left of our loved ones are hazyMemories.
Vivid colors seem to reverberate off of one another, transporting the viewer intothat dream-like subconsciousness where memories flood in and out. Layers of colorand shape seem to flow over each other, entangled in a surreal space only seen in adream, where there is harmony amongst dissonance.
Loose ends of yarn, empty spaces, and imperfections left behind underline thesense of incompletion of life. There is no knowing when one’s life is complete. It can becut short before you have done all that you wanted to do. There is a painful beauty inthis transience; that one's humanness is left behind along with all the imperfectionsthey didn't get around to perfecting yet.

Olivia is a local artist born and raised in the Lehigh Valley graduating from Moravian University with both a BA in Studio Art and BS in Biology. Olivia’s work was recently on display in Moravian University’s Payne Gallery in a solo exhibition and group exhibition. Her solo exhibit focused on themes of mortality and grief while her work in the group exhibition explored the notion of an afterlife.