Sunlit Reminiscence* was inspired by a journey through Morocco, where I was captivated by the intensity of color, the rhythm of daily life, and the warmth of the people I encountered. The painting is not a depiction of a specific place, but an attempt to reconstruct the atmosphere that remained after returning home. Rather than documenting a moment, I wanted to paint the way the experience continued to exist in memory: softened by time, altered by distance, yet still emotionally vivid.
The image combines fragments of observation, recollection, and imagination. Architectural elements, plants, textiles, and interior spaces are drawn from places I encountered during my travels, but they have been rearranged and transformed through the process of remembering. Certain areas remain unfinished or dissolve into thin washes of paint, reflecting the way memories gradually lose their precision. What remains is often not the factual image of a place, but the feeling it leaves behind.
An important aspect of the work is its support. The painting was made on a discarded box that originally contained a picture frame. I often work on found materials because they arrive with their own histories and traces of previous use. Rather than concealing these elements, I allow them to remain visible within the finished work. The worn edges, labels, folds, and imperfections become part of the image itself. In this way, the support mirrors the subject of the painting: both carry traces of something that existed before and continue to be reshaped through time.
The work is informed by my broader interest in memory and the way places are reconstructed internally. I am fascinated by how recollection compresses experiences, removes details, and combines separate moments into a single image. The painting does not seek historical or geographical accuracy. Instead, it explores what might be called the emotional truth of a place—the version that remains after experience has passed through memory.
*Sunlit Reminiscence* is representative of my wider practice, in which landscapes, interiors, and fragments of architecture are assembled into imagined spaces shaped by remembrance. Across my work, I investigate how places continue to live within us after we have left them, and how memory transforms them into something both personal and universal. By leaving parts of the image unresolved, I hope to create space for viewers to bring their own memories and associations into the work, allowing the painting to become a shared site of recollection.
