Yesterday I Will Remember You

2022

Yesterday I Will Remember You, 2022, 30 x 22 cm, high flow acrylic and thread on canvas

Some of my family pictures represent memories that I no longer have, or that I can only depict as loose abstractions of shade and color. Others invoke crystal-clear moments, like sitting beside my mom in the kitchen, as she unintentionally stitched my childhood memories on a piece of cloth that would end up in someone else’s closet at the end of the day. Some quasi-imaginative memories appear in my mind repeatedly as a photograph, and force their way into a canvas in an urge for materialization.

What is a memory? Is it what we experience, or mostly what story we create to explain it? This work explores the different levels of remembrance and connection I have with certain moments of my past. As memories are attempts to fill in the gaps of our non-empirical worlds, I invite the viewer to care less about who my subjects are, and more about what they might represent.