Standing Eggs hypha-gallery-sugar-house-island The painting holds onto a

The painting holds onto a feeling a memory of how summer once felt

‘Happy Days’ presents a reconstructed childhood memory of a Belfast summer parade through a fusion of digital collage

The work invites reflection on the fragmented

In parallel

The style of the garment I am wearing is reminiscent of tondero and festejo attire

Standing Eggs hypha-gallery-sugar-house-island The painting holds onto aStanding Eggs' grew from the realisation that I am drifting into my father's shape. He once seemed to stand like stone; I pushed against him, resisted him, and at the same time trusted him to be fixed, knowable. Now that I am older, what I saw as stable, immovable reveals itself as layered and unresolved. This work holds an unsettled recognition of vulnerability in male figures. Depicting eggshaped testiclesmasculine and virile yet soft, nurturing and