Paul Majek’s work explores themes of memory through generational dialogue and spirituality. Drawing from family archives and personal narrative, and using layers of opacity and transparency, his paintings reflect an interest in loss and change, whether the loss of a family member, a physical home or of a former self.  This painting reflects on the sensation of losing a former version of oneself and the instinct to flee from the inevitability of personal change. Majek considers how running from oneself can begin to feel like running from home, from family and from belonging. The work speaks to grief, to mourning yourself and those you love while they are still present, and to the pain of having somewhere once called home taken away from you.