The work of Maura Holden illuminates subconsious reality with its disregard for the trappings of time. With conscious reflection, we often delineate stages in our lives according to the passing of the physical, mental, and emotional states we possess at various stages in our lives. In contrast, these works give form to the inner journeys we make in which time spirals and folds back onto itself producing eternal layers. In Maura's art, one senses a connectedness between the objects portrayed such that the subconscious dream becomes the reality and reality becomes the dream. Her work reminds me of the experience of making drip castles at the beach; the way the sand and water mixture falls through the fingers as a liquid and then solidifies into drops as the water exits the solution into the body of the castle. One gets that same surreal feel from Maura's paintings. Her images are the remaining shells of her subconsious world, shells made by this world that she brings into consciousness. In this, the viewer is shown a mere moment of an ever flowing world, one pearl layer around the memory of sand.