Tara Conway

Mary Agnes

Acrylic, oil, fire, vintage photograph

10 x 10”

2020

NFS

“This was my “eureka!” breakthrough piece for the burning series. The painting of the house was hanging in a dusty corner, and I ran to get it once I realized the concept of burning a hole into architecture could create a visual time warp embodying the concept that the person in the photograph could have at some point lived in the house. To me, it’s important to have the individual in the photograph physically interacting with the foreground with the photograph being behind the painting and Mary Agnes perfectly achieved that goal.”