Stream of (Un)Consciousness, oil and acrylic on wood, 100 x 100cm, 2024

I see memory as essentially the holding on to what one has lived through, and therefore a basis for one’s understanding of who they are. Yet, the inevitable forgetting, the decay of memories, reverses that process, putting one’s identity into their own question. The subsequent attempt to remember is in a way an inner battle for knowing oneself; sometimes leading to an uncertain or biased recollection, and an analogous deformation of self awareness.

In short, this work is about how stories we tell ourselves, vaguely based on memories we made, create who we are. 

Inspired by Bergson’s theory on assertion of consciousness through the accumulation of experiences, Matter and Memory (1896)

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