Merel Alphenaar
The Memory of Flowers
The Memory of Flowers
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Title: The Memory of Flowers
medium: ink, acrylic and oil paint on canvas
dimensions: 30x40 cm
The Memory of Flowers
The Memory of Flowers is about how memories remain.
Not as complete stories, but as colours, shapes and impressions that are stuck in your memory.
The deep blue flowers represent those moments that remain bright.
Memories that come back instantly, even after time has passed.
The warm, weathered background reveals what has softened. Everything that fades with time, but never completely disappears.
The work began playfully, with loose layers of ink. Without a fixed plan, more like searching than guiding. From that underlayer, the acrylic flowers emerged. In the final phase, they were finished with oil paint to add depth and vibrancy and allow the work to "settle."
The Memory of Flowers plays with the contrast between what remains clearly present and what slowly fades. A quiet depiction of how memories behave. Sometimes sharp, sometimes vague, but always part of who you are.
The sides of the canvas are painted, so the work continues beautifully even without a frame and can be hung immediately.
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