Still Here
Still Here began with the white ginger lily that grew almost unnoticed in my grandmother’s garden in Cuba. Familiarity had made it nearly invisible to me, and only years later did distance teach me to see what had always been there. The painting reflects on a quiet form of absence: not the moment something disappears, but the moment we stop noticing what remains. It asks how familiarity shapes our attention, and whether seeing again sometimes begins with remembering how to look.
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