Street Scenes
This image is part of a series of experimental paintings using street scenes from street photography source and explores a notional idea of vision, visual processing, memory storage and recall.
Vision & Memory
When we see, we focus on the object of our attention and our brain quickly scans and fills in the peripheral information. These paintings explore with differing levels of detail and oblique surroundings. When you focus on the object of attention you begin to see, invent, recall the surrounding detail from your memory. In this painting for example, your brain knows it's a brick wall and what a brick wall looks like so when you look at the man smoking, your mind fills in the wall next to him. Similarly, we know what a doorway looks like and we also know what paladin / wheelie bins look like from our internal object and texture catalogue