Vanessa Marrocco is a painter whose work is situated in the motif of the road, and uses it as a metaphor to tie together disparate and ambiguous emotions. The road, a transitional space, is one that suspends us within our past, present, and future. In each painting, the edges of the road expands into a blur and vanish outside the borders of the canvas, dragging the foreground down with it in abstract brushstrokes, while in the distance a future culminates and grows larger within a vanishing point, every streak of light seemingly destined to the same fate. Anticipation, remorse, anxiety, and regret rub and rush against each other on the same plane creating a confusion that culminates into an ominous and liminal atmosphere. Vanessa's practice searches to communicate a profound and phenomenal feeling of how we embody our experience of time through depicting it as an extreme and beautiful landscape that is fractured and flowing.