Zofie King

Painting/Mixed Media

My current works are created in watercolor, gouache, and colored pencil, and I paint on paper as well as on found objects, which evoke another time and the lives of those who once owned them. Using my photographs of decaying architectural interiors as a reference, I develop the background of my pieces, layering surrealistic elements to create narratives within those spaces. The works explore abandoned architecture as a meditation on impermanence — how the present inevitably becomes the past. Institutional settings reflect on themes of solitude and the mindsets of those who once lived within them. Even the grandest architectural masterpieces may one day crumble, either deemed irrelevant or overtaken by nature, leaving behind only traces of what once was. 

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