There is a sense of time in memory, including both sequential and disorder of time. Sequential time is dynamic and the change of ambient light confirms the time changes. Similarly, things will appear and disappear with time. For example, in portrait paintings, wrinkles will appear on people's faces despite the accumulation of time, but their youthful looks will disappear with time. Therefore, in the context of contemporary art, how will portraits in multiple media or forms be defined? Especially abstract portraits painting. What's fascinating is that portrait painting has become the carrier of the artist's implicit memory when the artist subconsciously hides the memory content of the external memory of the portrait painting and only relies on the implicit memory to create the portrait painting. However, abstract portraits portray the immutable implicit memory like a scar, which will not disappear with time. Thus, abstract portrait painting also allows the audience to imagine the external memory part of the portrait painting, which is more interesting than the traditional realistic portrait painting. On the other hand, the portrait painting is still in the disorder of time, such as Déjà vu is produced by overlapping the feeling of the past in a static time with the current still time. When viewers are touched by the portrait painting in front of them, they might have a connection with the memories of the past.

Leda Catunda's "painting objects", a combination of soft sculpture and painted fabrics, drooped down and off the walls. (Grimson, 2021)They show us her gazes back at a place of belonging, revealing a distance, both temporal and spatial, that penetrates her experience of difference. I connected her work with Dalí's 'The Persistence of Memory'. They both subconsciously abstracted time into the flowing state of "sagging form", just like the state of a candle when it was melting. That made me realize that maybe this is the artist's implicit memory unconsciously blended into their works. In their subconscious, the image and state of time is a state of "melting". And this also inspired me to use media to express the state of time in my creation. Because in my implicit memory, the state of time is like flowing water, and I can feel it can pass by.