Artist & Photographer Deb Leal explores time, color, and memory by observing states of play within life’s simple pleasures. Nostalgia acts as a way of personal time travel: As bold uses of color may tether the work to contemporary practices, color can also lend itself to our earliest joyful memories. Time is addressed in each image as influences of art history and ritual, present within her Chicano upbringing, inform musings of metaphysics and philosophy. Leal evokes youthful spirits in visually operatic compositions that discuss both celebration and longing in a rapidly changing environment.