Interior color matches paint swatches to photographs from my family archive. The colors, each assigned a poetic name, associate the nostalgic images with the universal ideals to which the names aspire, while also operating as found poems.

arizona tan 
winter sky  
milk and honey 
potter’s clay
Feeling Fine

Using the palettes established by these photographs, I painted found objects in flat colors to evoke an imagined home—a lamppost covered in Secret Hideaway, a sprinkler a flat Cosmic Sunset, a bicycle coated in Wish You Were Here.