Remembrance: Attachment: Lost

Lost Acrylic on silk, 43 × 27 cm, 2023

Part of my Remembrance: Love and Grief series.

Based on a family photograph, this painting depicts my father standing alone, his figure emerging through expressive fields of yellow, blue, red, and black. The layered silk surface allows the image to shift between clarity and dissolution, echoing the unstable nature of memory.

Rather than preserving a portrait, the work reflects on the quiet persistence of presence after loss. The mirrored composition recalls a reflection on water, where the figure appears suspended between visibility and disappearance. Through the act of painting, remembrance becomes a way of sustaining attachment, allowing love and grief to coexist in an image that is never entirely fixed.