Hana Brock

Region: West

 My practice focuses on how architecture and forgotten spaces can act as a mirror of human emotions, reflecting feelings of grief, loneliness, and abandonment. These unknowable histories inspire me to see structures as living objects, silently existing and observing how we interact with them. Capturing these structures at night, stripped of human interaction, and incorporating artificial light is my way of further enhancing our connection to spaces.

The work has given me an opportunity to reflect on the process of my own grief; taking my own reference images is an important aspect of my process. My paintings start with long, aimless drives or walks where I inevitably discover sites that inspire me to recreate, in a painting, the emotions that I experienced there.