The other day, Mr. F & I were listening to Rick Steves on NPR as he interviewed a woman who, when she entered places in Scotland where her ancestors had dwelt, she felt like she knew the buildings intimately– even going so far as to identify rooms that were not open to the public.  Have you ever experienced that degree of deja vu?  I can’t say that I have, but I can certainly relate to arriving in a place and feeling as if you’ve known it all your life.  In her Field Notes series, Santa Fe artist Karina Noel Hean draws in collage what that experience might be like.

In these abstracted, dream-like landscapes, what we see are glimpses of places, fragments of details that our minds may be remembering.  Whether it be from this lifetime or somewhere buried in our ancestry ( or past lifetime, if you believe in that sort of thing ), the artist is conjuring up a visual representation of what those perceived memories may be like.

Shapes collide, morph, twist and turn around and upon each other.  They feel like landscapes from another world and in a sense, they are.

To see more of Karina Noel Hean’s work, please check out her website here.  How about you?  Where have you been that felt like you’d been there before?

All images are via the artist’s website.