JEDIDIAH ANGKASA
December Eleventh Interdisciplinary jedidiahangkasa@gmail.com jedidiah-angkasa.squarespace.com
Memory is not indelible. When driving past a sunset that lasts for only two seconds, take up a camera and capture it. Despite the loss of emotion and enjoyment, keep it in its best form. Lose to save. I thought one could always re-attend space and time by looking at a picture. But the experience became one of documentation instead of a looking at and ab- sorbing from. A trade happened. A permanent keeping for a temporal one, even when a sacrifice of presence was involved. Documentation uses the moment to make a picture. I use the picture to make a painting. This painting, toward which I, the artist, am present to, dignifies the past. The physicality and the fluidity of the medium celebrates the interplay of vividness and the ephemeral nature of recordings, as I reminisce persons in places past.
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