Siana Smith

In Eastern culture, white is a funeral color, signaling mourning, death, sadness and loss. Western culture uses white for weddings and considers it pure, holy, peaceful, and joyful. The white tissue took on the complexity of both. Painting these simple forms, the mosaic of every day, the overlooked mundane, they are transforming to ghosts, spaces or tears. In various shades of white or blue, the tissues reflect in its complexity and elegance, a kind of eulogy. There is a quiet sadness experienced during the passing of time, a chronicle of what was and what might have been.