These paintings serve as a hopeful exploration of ideals while I engage with the expanding responsibilities of creating a sense of home for myself and my family. While these paintings reflect hope, they inevitably also contain the fear and anxiety that accompanies the responsibility of starting a family. Sometimes home feels distant or shadowed, and sometimes it feels so close that all I feel see is the fear of losing it. The moments I’m attracted to in my paintings are bathed in a sense of longing for both past and future. The future contains my responsibility for creating a safe environment while the past contains memories that I get to glean for value and inspiration. Within this liminality I get a glimpse of a dynamic domestic ideal – an ideal informed by the people I love. The subject of home becomes a place of discovery, where safety and comfort meet possibility and mystery.