Coherence
Selina Reid
Opening: January 28 5:30 pm
Viewing: January 27 until February 14
This exhibition explores themes of how selfhood unfolds across time, shaped by the years we live through, the challenges we survive, and the burdens we often carry with us. Working with paint and colour in a pointillism-like technique, I build each piece dot by dot. There is something profound in this method—the way individual marks, like pixels or moments in a life, seem fragmented up close but form coherent shapes and patterns when we step back. This mirrors identity itself: we are composed of countless experiences, sometimes dark and futile, that only reveal their meaning with distance and perspective.
Wholeness is not about erasing our scattered parts but allowing them to exist together, creating something larger than the sum of individual marks. In the act of creation, I work not merely toward a distraction from present pain, but as a way to hold it alongside beauty and meaning, to endure while also transforming. The repetitive placement of each dot becomes meditative, a practice that gathers fragments of experience and arranges them into new patterns, new possibilities for being.
Through colour and pattern, I seek to capture how we are always becoming, always carrying our former selves like nested shadows. Survival itself is a creative act. This exhibition invites viewers to consider their own passages—the versions of self left behind, the challenges that changed them, the beauty found not despite struggles but within the process of working through them, one small mark at a time.
In the end, we are all like pointillist paintings: composed of countless moments—bright and shadowed—that only make sense when we see the whole picture. We are surfaces written over and over, where traces of earlier selves persist beneath the present, creating a complex beauty born from everything we have been and everything we are becoming.
{ Gallery 1 }
