Adaptation
cups, pencil and drawing on paper
oil on canvas
160x130cm and 150x120cm
09–24–1953
Goldsmiths BA
UAL BA
it is the work that expresses the distortion of recollection as a redolent object that can remind memories. I intend an uncanny mood with the passage of time in the paintings and I want to inform memories are constantly changing and discolouration and reoccurrence in our current situation.
In the first picture, several images are painting practice. In the second painting, in the foreground, part of the modified cup in the canvas shows a sequence of scenes that are changing at a speed like smoke. It's a cup, a familiar object, but it looks faint but speedy with two handles in one cup and a piece of broken piece that can't hold anything, and it also gives the general public a feeling of being in an unfamiliar space. As if the shape of this object disappeared in the middle and then reappeared, it also tells the flow of our memories. There are a number of lines, this expression means a blurred effect and an abstract expression of the flow of time. These lines, which are cleaned with a cleaner, are also contrasted with the dark colours in the background and blend in with the bright smoke in the middle. Inspired by the theory of psychology and three films Attila Marcel, Last Year at Marienbad, and Coffee and Cigarettes, I found that memories can be distorted and that there is an awkward flow of conversation and atmosphere in the film.
By breaking and recombining cups, I tried to distort the familiar things unfamiliarly. I thought the flow of the film, or time, was part of my memory, so I took a picture of the motion of drinking this cup awkwardly, observed it from day to night, and drew it in the form of a sequence. It shows the flow inspired by the colour of these photographs. I brought a colour palette from these photographs because it can distort the flow of time.