Meditations on Memory, Perception & Technology · Los Angeles

Can you really remember a sunset?

Memory is never a photograph. It returns as impressions — patterns, bands of color, an image the eye keeps rebuilding. John Vokoun (b. 1976) paints that reconstruction: experience broken down to its smallest units — data point, pixel, byte — and rebuilt by hand, line by line, into fields of color that vibrate the way the eye moves through a scene. The paintings are meditations on technology — on what the machines that now hold our memories are doing to perception itself.