Lucy Gerritsen

Exploring ideas of time and memory, history and who told it, migration and living on this earth. This little piece of laminate is from my mother’s sewing machine. How my parents stitched out a life in “Canada”, from the Netherlands, not realizing it’s foundation was on grief and lives torn apart. The Niagara Escarpment knows.

Still deep in this piece - layering paint, charcoal, wood, fabric and fragments of memory. A friend See Laurie Sew visited recently and we realized we are exploring the same themes of time, grief and memory.