Ilene Hayatsu

This series of ink drawings depict my abstracted memories and views of the changing Seattle landscape. Structures of my childhood that I thought I would always remember become hard to recall as they are destroyed. I passively watch the scenery change forms and go with the flow of waves to prevent myself from becoming seasick, but in doing so I become homesick in my own birthplace.

Water is pliable and willing to accept change; however, time manipulates the water and forces it to change. As I draw the city the way I remember it, flowing strokes of ink become dried out over time. One day in a distant future, time and light will erase every trace of ink until the paper becomes white again.