Memory Hollow Vessel (San Francisco) Painting

I was pondering on the linearity of time and space as I crossed the Tower Bridge in London. I wanted to cherish the moment entirely that day, so I started to take some pictures. However, I only realised it after I crossed the bridge, that even if I try to remember everything about that moment, once time has passed and once I start to move, those memories have changed, faded and remained selectively. Even so, taking pictures couldn’t prevent oblivion. It is an action of regret and lingering attachment. People take photographs to prevent being forgotten and to hold on to those memories. Numerous pictures taken from my travels eventually settled down in a folder. As I look through the album, I tend to find pictures that I cannot even recall when I took them. I can’t help but wonder if those reckless pressing of my camera shutter turned those memories into poison. My artworks and photographs are strongly linked. I came up with my current painting style inspired by film photography and I started by taking multi exposure pictures. To take this kind of pictures, I would shoot an entire roll as I normally would, and after the roll has been fully shot and wounded up, I would then reshoot with that same film. Back then I would bring my camera everywhere I go for a few days. And when I finally developed the film rolls, what I got were just white burned photos. As it turns out, for film cameras, light goes directly into film which is different compared to digital cameras. I realise that the photos should be shot underexposed, multiple times over to get a normalised exposure. Looking at those white photos, I can’t seem to recognise the overlapped scenes. Were these empty pictures? Or were they filled with scenes? Was my time and effort all for nothing? Would I be able to preserve these moments? The ‘Memory: Hollow Vessel’ series started from these questions.

Painting:Acrylic on Canvas

Original:One-of-a-kind Artwork

Size:51.2 W x 63.8 H x 1.2 D in

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