Crismary Pascarella is an architect and visual artist whose work exists at the intersection of memory, material, and the built environment. Born with a brush in hand, she began painting at the age of five, captivated by the expressive potential of color and form. Her lifelong love of art and architecture has since evolved into a practice that blurs the boundaries between disciplines—where cities become canvases, and memory is mapped through layers.

Crismary’s travels have taken her across continents and into the heart of urban landscapes, where she collects not only impressions of place, but also the quiet poetry of impermanence. In her studio, she deconstructs these memories—often beginning with the symbolic destruction of maps, blueprints, and found images—reassembling them through collage, fragments of paper, pigment, and word.

Her process is one of excavation and translation: sanding, layering, and obscuring until something intimate and universal begins to surface. Through this tactile language, she creates spatial compositions that do not replicate the world, but crystallize how it is felt, held, and recalled. The result is a body of work that is both deeply personal and broadly resonant—an exploration of belonging, dislocation, and the invisible lines that connect time to place.

Whether on canvas or through architectural design, Crismary’s work invites viewers to dwell in the in-between—to trace what was, what remains, and what still longs to be remembered.