This work is part of a series intended to answer the question: when I close my eyes and fully immerse myself in a song, what do I see? Created through hand drawn looping animation, I listened to the song continuously throughout the process, allowing its emotions and imagery to guide the piece as it evolved. This print is taken from one of the stills within that animation.

Nostalgia is often at the center of conversations about childhood, and the further we move away from those years, the stronger that feeling tends to become. But every once in a while, within those memories, there is also a feeling of certainty and belonging. A moment where you suddenly become aware that you are fully present inside your life while it’s happening. Traversing places you’ve been a hundred times, knowing what waits around the corner, who will be there, and feeling completely safe and understood within that space.

At the same time, part of growing older is realizing that even the most familiar places, people, and versions of ourselves are never fully permanent. Sometimes the spaces that once felt certain begin to shift into something unfamiliar. The comfort remains, but so does the quiet grief of recognizing that time has moved through it all.

This work attempts to capture that tension between familiarity and change, between presence and nostalgia, and the strange feeling of watching something once deeply known slowly become different before your eyes.