This piece came about from a find of a child’s journal in a Goodwill bin. The journal was of a journey to Africa, where he made friends with tribesmen and ate exotic foods. For most this would have been the trip of a lifetime, and a memory that you would hold on to forever. But this journal was discarded, sent for donation. What happened to the child?

I decided to use the journal pages as the foundation of a piece that explores what we leave behind. What memories do we keep, and what ones do we discard?

Below are the journal pages before painting: