“Location Updating” explores the “doorway effect”—the cognitive phenomenon where the brain “resets” when moving between spaces—as a metaphor for the profound, often invisible costs of personal transformation. In psychology, this effect occurs because the mind treats a new environment as a new “chapter,” temporarily shelving previous thoughts and intentions to prioritize the fresh context of a new room.
This work internalizes that process, scaling a simple mental lapse into a study of the liminal threshold—the psychological “in-between” where the architecture of the past is dismantled before the future is fully built. It maps the “psychic debris” of transition: the specific memories, identities, and emotional residues we abandon when moving toward a new horizon. In this vast, suspended gap, fragments of a former self collide with the unfamiliar, existing in a state of arrested connection where the old no longer fits and the new has yet to take root.
“Location Updating”
24×48(24)x2
Acrylic, Ink
Jan 2026
