These Summer Days is a three piece collection of works that center around memories that feel farther everyday as we continue to live through a pandemic. All the works are held in shadow boxes which typically house collections of items with nostalgic or historical value. Each shadow box depicts moments that feel so far away even thought this time last year these experiences felt commonplace. As I looked back on these memories and started to formulate pieces to make about them I realized the amount of editing that goes into our recollection of things and how we edit them for ourselves to either romanticize or vilify those experiences. With that in mind I constructed highly stylized, colorful, flat images of these places to focus on the romantization of them and the longing I feel for them now that I cannot experience them.  The first work focuses on a frozen yogurt shop I visited on a lot of my days off with my friends during the summer, the second a carousel at an amusement park, and the third my shoes and my suitcase in a common picture I would take before embarking on a trip. All these images have the line art placed on the glass of the shadowbox and not the painting itself to create parallax. This visual distortion is only alleviated when the viewer’s vision lines up exactly when the point of view I had when creating the work. This continues to illustrate that our memories are also deeply personal and individual.