I find Hiroshi Sugimoto’s out of focus depictions of famous architectural sites to be an inspirational source for my project. The visual aesthetic he provides us to engage with can be interpreted as how we could potentially perceive our own memories. There is something transcendental about this work where the subject is veiled in an alternative reality. The blurry depictions create a haze over the subject but not to the point where it is completely shrouded in abstraction. This divisive distortion gives the viewer the opportunity to focus on the complete form of the architecture without being distracted by lesser details.

Source : https://www.sugimotohiroshi.com/new-page-5

***Hiroshi Sugimoto is one of the artists mentioned in the video “Memory” with host, Isabella Rossellini, assigned for Art & The Brain class research -> https://art21.org/watch/art-in-the-twenty-first-century/s3/introduction-to-memory-by-isabella-rossellini/#:~:text=Introduction%20to%20%22Memory%22Featuring%20Isabella%20Rossellini&text=The%20artists%20wrestle%20with%20complex,the%20past%20embody%20cultural%20memory.