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Photo credit: Spike Mafford
Inspired by a visit to Cama Beach on Camano Island in Washington, SHIMMER IN TIME reflects Chapek’s fascination with the coexistence of personal memory, collective history, and the natural world. Fragments of a 1930s cabin, fishing huts, and more recent architecture suggest different eras that feel vast in human terms, yet brief within the longer rhythms of nature. These architectural elements blur into the surrounding forest, which steadily reclaims and reshapes them.
For Chapek, the painting embodies a central idea of Then Is Now: that human histories unfold within a comparatively brief continuum of time, while the landscape remains a constant presence before and beyond us. It also reflects her deep interest in place and the importance of having—and continually returning to—a sense of grounding within the natural world.