If Recollecting Were Forgetting (2026)Acrylic painting by Marian Gorin

If Recollecting Were Forgetting reflects on the fragile nature of memory — how each act of remembering subtly alters what once was. Rather than preserving experience, recollection reshapes it, softens its edges, and allows certain fragments to intensify while others dissolve.

Expanses of luminous yellow open like suspended light, while layered turquoise and rose tones gather below in shifting, atmospheric fields. Two concentrated areas of crimson emerge as emotional residues — not fixed forms, but traces that seem to surface and recede at once.

The painting resists clear representation. Instead, it exists in the space between presence and disappearance, where color behaves like memory itself: unstable, fluid, and quietly transformative. Through layered gestures and softened transitions, the surface suggests that what we hold onto is never untouched — it is continuously rewritten.

This work invites the viewer to consider the possibility that remembering may, in subtle ways, also be a form of forgetting.

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Materials used:

Acrylics

Details:

• Acrylic painting on Canvas
• One of a kind artwork
• Size: 80 x 100 x 2cm (unframed) / 80 x 100cm (actual image size)
• Ready to hang
• Signed on the front
• Style: Organic
• Subject: Abstract and non-figurative

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