This work is to explore the static performance of memory in dynamic time. My friend is the protagonist in the photo, and what is recorded is a conversation between me and her about memory. This is the memory of a conversation between me and her from my viewpoint, the expression and documentation of the memory in the present time. For her, it is the experience she recalled in the past, and the memories that happened in the past are recorded through her facial expressions. The feelings you have when you see this work are memories that happened in the future.

Duan, JX. (2021) I think what I think [oil painting].
150 x 140 cm
Camberwell, London
Sort of images of work in a gallery situation
Portrait painting: its nature and function / by Herbert Furst; illustrated with 166 reproductions of portraits
We have been taught to believe that art is dependent on the fulfilment of aesthetic laws. But who defines these laws? People seem to have an innate compulsion to categorise artificial and natural, for example, we assume that "art" has a positive evaluation connotation that "craft" lacks(Markowitz, 1994); we also assume that "art" has a positive evaluation meaning that "artificial intelligence" lacks. But, in this paper, I argue that we should routinely group them together. Because, "Representation in art is not the result of only automatic imitation of Nature, not on the other hand of an entirely conscious selection of objective facts, but also, and much more perhaps, an activity of the associative and synthetic energies of the mind over which the artist has partial but not entire control: in other threadbare words: Poeta nascitur non-fit." (Furst, 1927, p.3) According to the concept of "implicit memory" and "explicit memory" proposed by Graf and Schacter (1985, p.501), I note that both conscious selections of objective facts and activity of the associative and synthetic energies of the mind all are the contents of memory. Therefore, this research will examine what portraiture evidence there is for the characteristic of the memory. I will attempt here to deal only with the subject under three headings, viz. Consciousness, Time, and Emotions.




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