Like footsteps or tide lines etched into sand, the memory of the past is imprinted onto the present. Marks upon the world emerge and dissolve in a continuous cycle shaped by entropy, revealing the inevitable arrow of time. This work explores the temporary nature of presence and the traces left behind.

Born from the ambition to create a living, moving artwork that is unique in every moment, Latent Memory: White in Black Square exists at the intersection of painting and sculpture. Developed through extensive research into heat-reactive thermochromic pigments, the work inhabits a state of perpetual transformation. Within the canvas, shifting temperature gradients follow mathematical patterns to create traces that bloom across the surface as dynamic brushstrokes of light. Thermal energy alters the crystalline structures within the pigment, triggering polymorphic phase transitions that shift its optical properties from opacity to transparency, revealing the white beneath.

These are drawings made by temperature, appearing and receding across the canvas as a physical record of thermal energy as it flows and dissipates through the material. The piece exists in perpetual flux, never finished, continuously evolving. Each encounter offers a unique meditation on process, energy, and impermanence: painting with heat, sculpting with time.

Exhibited at MAKE Southwest January – April 2026.