Selected by Chief Curator Rebecca Wilson as a Curator’s Pick for Saatchi Art’s Best of April, Imprint: Remembering
Every experience leaves an imprint. Not every imprint deserves to become destiny.
Imprint: Remembering developed through an accumulation of marks, textures, colour, and gold, each layer carrying traces of what came before. Some remained visible, while others became embedded beneath the surface, continuing to influence the work in quieter ways.
As the painting evolved, it began to mirror a fundamental aspect of human experience. We are shaped by the memories, encounters, and events that leave their mark on us, yet we are not defined by all of them. The past remains present, but its meaning is never fixed.
The work reflects this ongoing dialogue between memory and choice. Every layer contributes to the whole, yet no single layer determines its final identity.
Imprint: Remembering is rooted in the understanding that our lives are built from accumulated traces, and that growth often begins when we consciously choose which of those traces we carry forward.
