This paper offers an insight into painting practice as a form of recording what was seen and experienced. A painting is a carrier through which a subject achieves confirmation and is made believe that this affirmation is stored, archived and safe. I study the aspiration for the incarnation of the minimum of memory, mentioned by Samuel Beckett in his works, with the accompanying element of absurdity in mind. In this paper, I interpret the role of a photograph as reference material, as a basis for paintings. Paintings are explained as markers, as depictions of the moment of perception and its analysis through insights into the perception of time and memory.
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