Original artwork description:

Where Remembrance Grows IV explores memory as a layered, physical terrain rather than a fixed image. The surface is built slowly through accumulated gestures: painted and written paper fragments, acrylic, pastel, sand, and repeated acts of covering and revealing. Each layer holds traces of what came before, allowing memory to appear as something that grows, erodes, and reconfigures itself over time.

The composition is structured through contrasting zones of density and quiet. A restrained, open upper field holds a sense of pause, while the lower and lateral areas thicken into textured greens, purples, and scattered luminous accents. These shifts are not illustrative but perceptual, evoking the way recollection moves between clarity and obscurity, presence and dissolution.

This work belongs to an ongoing series investigating how memory inhabits space—how it settles into the body, the landscape, and the unconscious—remaining alive, unstable, and quietly transformative.

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Materials used:

Acrylics, sand, paper, pastel, crayon

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