Foerster, Indi2026-04-282026-04-282026-05https://hdl.handle.net/10177/41375Recovering from memory loss, I found brief moments of reprieve when I leaned into the natural world around me. This occurred through a desperate material exploration of the forest, searching for meaning and communing with the bodies of trees that resembled my own: splintered and shedding itself with growth. Here you will find my recollection of each knot, of each event, written alongside these painted iterations of bark, as I sought an abstraction to reconcile the ontological–the intangible. I pursued not only acts of remembering, but the quiet crevices between memory and forgetting, where identity is formed, dissolved and reimagined. These painted crevices reflect memoir: They’re disjointed, they’re scattered, they’re unpredictable. They operate not only as a space for disconnection, but more importantly, they become a space of holding. A space for the hypothetical. A space for hope. This tension of possibility asks us what are these spaces that are forgotten? And more importantly, what is held there?Acrylic, oil, oil stick, charcoal, wool, pastel, wax on canvasabstract, memory, confessional, nature, tree, surrealism, writing, oil painting, painting, translation, meditation, psychology, ptsd, tree bark, tree knots, canvas, multimedia