I Remember

I remember times and events from my childhood – memories rubbed smooth by decades of repetition.  How is it that my sister has a completely different memory of the same event? 

The process of painting with cold wax echoes this confusion by obscuring imagery and shapes with layers of pastel and paint, both contrasting and complementing the initial colors, until the finished piece no longer resembles its original memory.  

“There are some things one remembers even though they may never have happened.”  ― Harold Pinter

"What matters in life is not what happens to you but what you remember and how you remember it."  - Gabriel Garcia Marquez