Bright bold colors on deep black backgrounds, my surreal architectural paintings show abstracted and distorted places from memory - a garden, an apartment, and my imagination; inviting viewers to lose themselves in their maze-like quality. In this series titled Memory Map (2022), I address the experience of cultural displacement, mobility, and disjunction, I draw on sensations of distance and detachment to conjure new worlds. Through Escher-like spaces, I explore my relationship with lost memories and forgotten specifics. Home represents safety, comfort, and longing; yet I question whether these feelings are attached to a real location or an imaginary space. The works combine mediated representations of existing places with architectural forms and cultural motifs, recalling Song dynasty Chinese mountain paintings as disappearing heritage, a home, and a shelter.  The renderings of hybrid spaces exist in the zone between reality and invention, present and past, physical and digital.