Artists: Cathie Joy Young

Cathie Joy Young paints in acrylic on wood panels. “Figures and animals are symbolic in my work, and I feel like my imagery comes from borrowed memories remembered, not literally, but it is a way I explain it to myself. I’ve had an idea to paint imagined portraits of the ancestors I've uncovered thorough my genealogical research, but I am not organized enough to do so. However, the idea of this comes up now and again in these paintings, imagined ancestors and totems to those families I am, or may be, descended from. An echo is time travel. You make a sound in the present that you will hear in the future as the original sound you made becomes the past.