Paula Elion

My work whispers rather than shouts. I explore daily interactions and the unspoken rules that form identity, gender, and family bonds. Motherhood, like art, is transformation: it teaches me to listen differently, trust silences, and let questions stay open. I draw from films, children’s stories, old photos, and personal narratives, altering familiar images so they shift and resist fixed meanings. Layering, erasing, and distorting materials mirrors the fluid, changing nature of identity, shaping a visual language between abstraction and the expressive.