Chalfant’s work delves into the ways we experience our most personal images. How do we hold them, alter them, imagine or escape them? Why do we revisit them over and over again? In her practice she explores her own memories, the collective memories of her family, and worlds she has created. With heavy influence from photography, Chalfant points to the role of image as storyteller, collector, historian, and deceiver. Through depicting objects such as photographs, televisions, and digital images, she illustrates the changing state of the reproduced image, its exponential influence on our perceptions, and that memory itself is both sacred but malleable, influenced by context, experience, and time. Paintings of childhood toys and far off homes direct the viewer to nostalgia, which we are partial to viewing longingly through rumination, and can lead way to distortion and manipulation. Through painting, Chalfant hopes to present these modes of seeing for consideration, immersion, and questioning.