Memories of Futures Passed: watercolour series

Memories of Futures Passed series of watercolour paintings explore quantum emotions and non-linear time.

They reflect on the loss of Heaney’s sister to suicide in 2019 and how emotions are intricately layered in the body in a non-binary, quantum way. Heaney initially works on wet paper so the water follows it’s own inner sensorium, creating it’s own depictions of objects that she works into the composition.

Fine details, undulating lines, tide lines, text and gentle marks draw the viewer into this im/exploded microcosm of quantum perception, unrealised memories and interior life. 

Following a process of journaling about her sister, love, grief, and quantum physics, Heaney paints freely and spontaneously building up to the final work.

Heaney sees watercolour as quantum. On wet paper depictions of objects swell, overflowing their own boundaries and merging with other forms, entangling.

Watercolour also has it’s own agency, it’s inner sensorium creeping across the paper. As the watery surface dries tide marks form, outlines of new landscapes, new bodies and new entanglements form, which Heaney works into the composition. Gradually, Heaney creates a layered multiverse across the page, suggesting a mingling of different realities and perspectives simmultaneously.