Studio Thoughts---> Painting Second Hand Memories (S.H.M.)

What Are Second Hand Memories? -Remembering memories (personal, told, read) while painting. Recalling my own sensory experience of places (spirit of place), remembering my memories of hearing stories told, oral histories that have become apart of my history, etc. during the formative painting (thinking) process. -Describing these 'second hand memories' with intuitive color and found systems of explorative painting methods i.e. (no representational images used to formulate compositions, except from memory). -Painting as a way to depict and communicate as an analogy of the incomprehensible (idea from Richter); examples---> conveying and retelling lost nostalgia's, remembering epic indigenous resistance using knowledge of the land and spirit of place as protection, embodying romantic ancestral memories of pre-colonialism.