Caroline Abella
Fumée des Autres, secondhand smoking, or even more directly, smoke from others, explores a lighter from various vantage points and a figure smoking in an effort to depict the piecing together and revisiting of a memory.
I don’t smoke. Through repetition of lighters and smoking, pieces come together in different ways, shifting each time, and becoming something new. In oil paintings, specificity yields more direct interpretations that represent reality with a more grounded, seemingly accurate feel. Whereas looser, more expressionistic interpretations are depicted in vivid colors and bolder lines with acrylic paint, oil pastels, and various pens.
A clearer picture begins to emerge from these details. With each revisit, elements change and shift. Memories can warp and become inaccurate, transforming. As time progresses, how many details are lost, misremembered, or fabricated into something that becomes a new reality?