An abstract painting with old fabric causing a conversation between past and present. Layers of history rest beneath bold strokes of color, revealing fragments of ornate design that speak to what was—faded but not forgotten. The fabric itself holds an imprint of time, a physical archive disrupted and reimagined through fluid shapes and vibrant hues.
 
This piece explores the way memory morphs and shifts, never static but always evolving. The black lines weave through the composition like pathways of recollection, connecting the structured past to an uncertain present. Some forms are crisp and defined, while others dissolve into the background, much like the way we recall and reshape our own histories.
 
The Shape of Remembering reflects this ongoing transformation—where memory is not just something we look back on, but something we actively reconstruct, reinterpret, and carry forward.
 
Original acrylic painting on regular (3/4") stretched canvas.
 
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SPECS
Type: Original
Shape: Rectangle
Orientation: Vertical
Style: Abstract
Colour: Black, Grey, Blue, Orange, Purple, Pink, Yellow
Texture: (0 - None to 5 - Heavy) : 1
 
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