How we connect with space is a question that we must now focus on and give awareness to in order to understand ourselves at all. Looking at images of spaces, places and people that we find important in our day to day lives, while working with the communicative process of painting, I seek to invest myself in the spaces that I am haunted by. Space can reveal much about our personalities and our perceptions of the world around us. We identify ourselves by where we are from—where we live and where we choose to spend our time. Painting exists in tactility. We feel the brushstrokes and the movement of paint in our bodies, the painter’s presence is felt from interpreting the act of creation of the painting. Through painting the places that I find important, or inversely unimportant and banal, I can construct a picture of what identity is. www.instagram.com/jadelowder/ www.facebook.com/jade.lowder.1 jadelowder.com