Built From What She Left Behind is an abstract work created over five years through a layered process. Paint was added, buried, and brought forward again as I lived with the quiet ache of losing someone who slipped away. Each layer carries a pulse of that absence, a trace of what lingered in the silence she left behind. The textures rise and fall like memory, forming a surface shaped by time, grief, and the slow work of accepting what could not be kept.
artist: Erin McGrath Rieke
created: 2025
series: n/a
subject: abstract
styles: abstract
mediums: acrylic
DETAILS
artwork: acrylic on canvas
original: one-of-a-kind artwork
size: 16 w x 20 h x 1 d in
frame: optional
Built From What She Left Behind is an abstract work created over five years through a layered process. Paint was added, buried, and brought forward again as I lived with the quiet ache of losing someone who slipped away. Each layer carries a pulse of that absence, a trace of what lingered in the silence she left behind. The textures rise and fall like memory, forming a surface shaped by time, grief, and the slow work of accepting what could not be kept.
artist: Erin McGrath Rieke
created: 2025
series: n/a
subject: abstract
styles: abstract
mediums: acrylic
DETAILS
artwork: acrylic on canvas
original: one-of-a-kind artwork
size: 16 w x 20 h x 1 d in
frame: optional
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