Orestes at the Tomb of Agamemnon

In "Orestes at the Tomb of Agamemnon” (48” x 36”), Martin starts from the pictorial convention of showing this scene as a poetic embodiment of the contemplation of grief as a state of being and she upends it, contemporizes it, through the independent movement of paint across the surface to express the discontinuity we all feel, the nostalgia we now have for being able to experience loss and grief in its fullest expression while living in our world of now; of relentless change, speed, and energy.