Time Passes Time All But Passes

Emily Kepulis is a mixed media visual artist and muralist living in Portland, OR. Her paintings explore themes like home and selfhood, specifically how they are shaped by memory and experiences, always malleable, nonlinear, and ultimately based on perspective. She acknowledges home as a physical place as well as a place within the body and a locus of perception while referencing family photos, artwork from her lineage, her own past paintings, and anonymous found photos. With no painting being fully planned out, trust and transformation are important parts of the process and the final images. She is interested in how we are shaped by that which surrounds us, our perceptions of ourselves, and our attachment to the self in relation to the whole: what humanness means personally, socially, ancestrally, and spiritually.