Filmmaker Maya Deren once said that she wanted to be remembered for her images. I think at the basic level, it's the achievement for every artist, to create images (visually, static, sequential, audio, emotional) that people remember. We tend associate artwork to names rather than faces (exceptions to celebrities such as Warhol and Dali). It's through images that we understand our condition. From maps and interfaces to memories.

Images are always the perception of a process. In painting and drawing, one can discover layers, areas of erasure, mistakes and corrections. Photographs can be constructed, processed with even chance shots being the process of a seasoned eye, an eye that is actively looking, scanning, observing, open.

I've been sitting on a painting project for the last weeks. I know what it ought to be; I don't know where I ought to begin. This morning, I awoke to find a painting, complete, realized in my room that had not been there when I retired for the night. The above image of my clothes drying in the morning sun, against the background of the houses on my street in Vietnam confirmed for me that some images need to be viewed at the right time.

Below is a process of drawing from Van Gogh. A drawing to a painting returning to a drawing. How we look at images is the art, we call it imagination.

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