No contact without a trace: what do we inherit and what do we leave behind? In Traces, I use photography, encaustic, drawing and oil painting to consider ideas about memory and the impressions left by our presence, both interpersonally and more broadly, on our environment. With layers of paper, oil paint and wax, I preserve family photographs and/or ephemera to create ambiguous narratives with figures, landscapes or objects—exploring how our imperfect remembering of the past plays a part in determining who we become, and influences what we leave behind.