This concentration has the common theme of the representation of old memories and the immortalization of new ones. With acrylic paint, color pencils, and felt-tip liners I created layers in my pieces to combine different aspects of a memory. Memories often aren’t just single pictures, they often involve several visuals as well as other sensory information like scents, lighting, and sound.

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The simplicity and complexity of the compositions and layering in my pieces varies depending on the strength and convolutedness of the memory I’m depicting in said piece; some pieces are more picture-like and simplistic in composition, while others take a more ‘painted collage’ like form, where the elements are fragmented in their layers, some even peeking through others.

 

The relevance of certain elements in my pieces also varies, and I convey this through hierarchy of opacity, defined lines or lack thereof, scalar hierarchy, and other principles of art. The concept of opacity and relevance in terms of the representation of memories is derived from the idea that memories are hazy and sometimes deceiving perceptions of the past, and the less prominent elements of a memory are often blurry due to their irrelevance relative to the rest of pieces of the puzzle that is a single memory. In a very direct manner, the dominant components of my memories are also visually dominant within the artwork.