A Lapse of the Past
2017
Memories, the faculty of the mind by which information is stored and retrieved. Retrieving a memory not only entails the visualization of previously perceived images, but also the summoning and commemoration of experienced emotions and innate instinct. I realized that while I had individualistic and isolated forms within my consciousness, I lacked the ability to vividly recollect explicit details and particular contexts of events, as well as not being able to conceptualize those memories on a relative timeline for the sake of being able to compare one particular moment with that of another within my gallery of recollections as a way to situate the time and circumstance by which those memories occurred.
To a certain extent, although my past experiences and influences have customized me to become the me of today, they are in a sense incomplete as I am unable to recollect those memories that cumulatively create the actualization of the past. But from a theoretic perspective, although I am currently incapable of recalling the whole embodiment and essence of my history due to the holes and cavities present within my memory, the past has and always will be the same as those experiences have already happened and are entirely in their complete state, therefore allowing them to be categorized and conceptualized as being ‘finished’ despite my own personal understanding of them.
Therefore within my pieces, instead of fully encapsulating a hyper-realistically ‘finished’ image through the method of portraying my subject matter through realism, I instead aim to show the arguable ‘unfinished’ characteristic of the abstractive concept of memories within my pieces. While there is a multitude of negative space and white area within my compositions, which consequently generate the judgement by which the pieces can be considered unfinished and inconclusive, they are in my perspective understood to be complete as it achieves the function of catalyzing the process of stimulating reminiscence.
Pieces:
1. Mirror
2. Idiosyncrasy
3. My Progenitors: Unborn Lane
