See Memory
Selected Paintings from the PBS Broadcast Film
Created frame by frame from more than 30,000 painted images, See Memory is a hand-painted film exploring memory, trauma, and healing through the intersection of painting, neuroscience, and narrative.
The original works presented here are drawn from the visual world of the film. Each exists both as an independent painting and as part of the moving sequence, preserving the tactile process behind a film built entirely through painted images.
Selected paintings from See Memory are available for acquisition.
Moon Balloon, 2025, Gouache, acrylic and oil on linen canvas, 30” x 40” x 2”, Available
Studio Dream 2025, Gouache, acrylic and oil on linen canvas, 30” x 40” x 2”, Available
Hallway to Imagination 2025, Gouache, acrylic and Oil on linen on canvas, 30” x 40” x 2”, Available
At Piano, 2023, Gouache, acrylic and oil on Paper, Framed, Available
Horizon, 2018, Gouache and acrylic and on linen on cotton paper, Available
Moon On A String, 2018, Gouache, acrylic and Oil on Linen canvas, 30” x 40” x 2”, Available
Reflection 2018, Gouache and acrylic and on linen on cotton paper, Framed, Available
Empty Room, 2018, Gouache, acrylic and oil on linen. Private Collection
About the Paintings
The paintings from See Memory began as part of a moving image, but they remain rooted in the directness and physicality of paint.
I created the film frame by frame, using gouache, acrylic, pastel, and mixed media to build an interior world shaped by memory: rooms that dissolve, figures that appear and recede, flowers that grow through domestic spaces, boats that drift across uncertain landscapes, and images that hover somewhere between lived experience and dream.
The act of painting became central to the subject of the film. Memory is not a fixed archive. It is revisited, altered, fragmented, and sometimes transformed by the meanings we give it later. The paintings retain that sense of movement, even when viewed as still works.
Several paintings from the series have been selected for exhibition and presentation alongside the film, including works connected to its museum and public programming. Together, they reveal the material process behind See Memory: a film made not only from images, but from thousands of individual painted moments.
