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This painting explores the way memory shifts between clarity and distortion. The blue vessel, tattooed with repeating eyes, suggests both protection and surveillance - echoing how our past often feels like it is watching us. The tiled background creates a rhythmic pattern, like a game board, where memory pieces move and rearrange themselves. Bright flashes of yellow inside the vase hint at fragments of fish refracted by the light, caught in reflection. The work plays between presence and absence, inviting the viewer to question what remains and what slips away.

Materials used:

Oil paint and natural indigo dye on canvas

Tags:
#fish #interior #art deco #contemporary painting #glass vase 

Memory Games (2025) Oil painting
by Ben Stephenson

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This painting explores the way memory shifts between clarity and distortion. The blue vessel, tattooed with repeating eyes, suggests both protection and surveillance - echoing how our past often feels like it is watching us. The tiled background creates a rhythmic pattern, like a game board, where memory pieces move and rearrange themselves. Bright flashes of yellow inside the vase hint at fragments of fish refracted by the light, caught in reflection. The work plays between presence and absence, inviting the viewer to question what remains and what slips away.

Materials used:

Oil paint and natural indigo dye on canvas

Tags:
#fish #interior #art deco #contemporary painting #glass vase 
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Benjamin Stephenson (b. 1990) is a British-born artist whose work explores the evolving relationship between humanity and the natural world. He studied at Wimbledon College of Art (UAL), graduating with... Read more

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