Cindy Sumerano

Artist Statement

This work, produced largely in the isolation of the pandemic, is a reflection on the things time takes from us made during a period when time seemed to stand still. They are an exploration of the preciousness of the mundane and a seeking after answers to nagging questions. What do we value? What do we record? Where is the evidence of the human connection, care, and tenderness we show each other in our most unguarded moments? What is it that makes a moment worthy of notice, of remembrance? These paintings are odes to nostalgia, to loved ones and opportunities lost, an honoring of the threads that hold us together and the moments that create a lifetime