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A woman in a striped shirt appears seated in a dark restaurant's booth, lit by a table light in front of her. She appears twice: once, on the right side in saturated teal and green, and again on the left in natural colors, with teal illuminating her cheek. She gasps and looks away shyly in each appearance respectively. To the left, a grainy photobooth strip of two lovers is transparent over the entire image, also colored in teal.

Dinner After Chelsea

Reese Ford

Oil on canvas

Undergraduate
Dinner After Chelsea is a distorted remembrance of a date in New York City. Intentional plays on the relationship between the painting's physical dimensions and the rectilinear pictures it depicts emphasize how memory extends across multiple locations and times once recalled in the mind's eye. By remembering significant moments, we yearn for the past while simultaneously surrendering to the reality that we can never perfectly recall them visually.