Matter Memory

This series of all original and unique artworks is about the use of matter as memory. Reused canvases lend their stories to the next portrait in the form of textures. Collected salt from different places in nature adds not only the memory of the place but also reacts with the humidity, sucks water from the air and makes a face “cry” staining a painting day after day. The physics of flowing water which, mixed with paint, creates a register of passing time and the weather. Fragments retrieved from the remains of other works collect different meanings, become traces in the history of new beings. We are memory because we are experiences and whatever is left of them. We are an accumulation of our surroundings, remnant of instants.