The Rememberer

The Rememberer extends the tension between intimacy and distance, presence and absence. Like others in this series, it portrays a figure that feels at once grounded in material reality and strangely dislocated, seeming to carry an inner world of memory and enigma.

The carousel horse suggests cyclical movement, ritual, and stasis, as the woman exists in a threshold space, neither fully in the fantastical carnival nor in the grounded world, but suspended somewhere between them. This liminality echoes the other paintings in this series where figures embody states of transition, fragmentation, or quiet estrangement.

The background of glowing pink and purple sky, bleeding into the deep shadows, carries forward a heightened color which unsettles the scene. The flesh tones, pale dress, and white horse glow against the saturated ground, amplifying a push-pull of beauty layered with disquiet.

Like the other figures in the series, her posture is understated. It is passive, contemplative, almost emptied out, while the surrounding imagery vibrates with emotional charge. This suggests that the body itself is less a character than a vessel or archive for layered experiences and memories. This is also consistent with my theory of a “canvas as body / body as archive”.

The expression of the figure, distant yet direct, aligns with the ambiguous psychological space across the series. She looks outward, but her gaze seems to bypass the viewer, suggesting an interiority that resists being read. This inscrutability is one of the defining traits tying the series together.

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Intermission No. 50

This work occupies a quieter register within my abstract paintings that treat the canvas as a living body. A dense central mass of grey-green texture, scraped and pressed into the surface, suggests compressed sediment. Around it, veils of pearl blue and radiating fields of yellow shimmer like atmosphere, positioning the painting between earthbound solidity and airy expanse.

The surface bears the marks of time with layers eroded and rebuilt, gestures scraped across like geological strata. The painting is a body that is at once weathered stone and vulnerable skin.

In dialogue with other works in the series that embody fire, water, and flesh, this piece draws the viewer into a meditation on matter as memory, and how earthly deposits continue to shift, like a living thing, always changing based on a history of exposure to the elements.

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Intermission No. 49

This painting works in a more fragile, flesh-like register, compared to others in the series. Here, the palette of soft pinks, violets, yellows, and greys evokes the skin of the canvas-body itself. It is tender, porous, and marked by stains or scars. The surface is textured with accreted layers that resemble both geological erosion and biological tissue.

By using acrylic on paper and canvas, the work emphasizes absorption and seepage, the way liquid material moves unpredictably, soaking into the paper’s fibers and then hardening into crust.

Conceptually, this painting suggests the threshold between life and decay. The surface vibrates between blooming (with its floral pinks and yellows) and decomposing (with its earthy browns and corrosive textures). This ambiguity resonates with the question of whether the boundary between the living and the non-living is as fixed as modern thought insists.

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The Garden of Errors

In The Garden of Errors, a woman rests against her hand, her gaze turned inward, as if listening to something only she can hear. Behind her, a lush ground of foliage dissolves into abstraction, where brushstrokes unravel into suggestion rather than form. The setting evokes a private garden, yet one marked not by perfection, but by the subtle traces of missteps, oversights, and forgotten intentions.

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The title points to the ways memory and experience accumulate like vines, how they tangle, repeat, sometimes bloom, sometimes obstruct. Each “error” is less a failure than a mark of humanity, something left behind in the act of living. The figure seems suspended in this landscape of imperfection, not trapped but contemplative, as though she recognizes the beauty within what is flawed.

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As part of the series, The Garden of Errors continues the dialogue between figure and abstraction, body and environment, the seen and the felt. Here, the canvas becomes a place where the inner world and outer world overlap, and where the quiet traces of human fragility are allowed to flourish.

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