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Kaylyn Murphy is an American artist based in Paris, France. Her oil paintings and drawings examine how memory and emotion overlap and transform over time. Murphy works through gestures shaped by shifting states of awareness, allowing marks to emerge as symbols of psychological movement. Each surface of Japanese rice paper and linen canvas becomes a site of return, where moments dissolve and reassemble. These surfaces reflect the instability of perception and the persistence of what cannot be fully recalled. Through a process rooted in observing shifting states of consciousness, Murphy maps patterns that arise within states of hypnopompia when the mind drifts between dreaming and waking. The repetition of form and rhythm in her work mirrors the looping structures of thought and affect. Her practice involves recontextualizing gestural uncertainty as a space where emotion finds form and continuity.