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The Memory of Paradise
The most believable Florida in the painting appears inside a broken mirror, while the surrounding world becomes impossible. Vela reverses the usual role of reflection: perhaps the mirror is not showing reality at all, but memory. The shell deepens that idea because people carry shells home as physical fragments of places they are leaving. Years later, the object may remain even when the memory has changed.
Enzo Vela · The Memory of Paradise
Oil on canvas, 36 × 27 inches (91.4 × 68.6 cm)
Florida Coast
Original · Concept, composition and artistic direction by Enzo Vela; realized in oil through a collaborative studio process.
Accompanied by a signed certificate of authenticity.
Acquired directly from the artist's studio, St. Petersburg, Florida.
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The question behind the painting
Do we remember places as they were, or as we needed them to be?
The shell in this work
From Florida, Remembered in Dreams · a study in Tidal Surrealism.