Miami Basel Art Week Dec 3-7, 2025 Mana Wynwood Convention Center Booth 600, Mills Gallery

The Psychology -and Art- of Remembering Places

Do you live in the past? Do you want to live in the past? Is 'nostalgia' good or bad? Is repeating the past always bad? Some people will only live in a modern space but will only go out to eat in an elegant re-creation of the past. Others will only eat in the most modern place but will live in a re-creation of the childhood home or a world from the past. The psychologiy of our relationships with the past are actually a new academic discipline. Even for someone with a photographic memories--every time he or she remembers something, that process of remembering in itself always colors that memory and alters that memory forever. Memories are abtract impressionist critiques on reality. I use modern abstract methods, techniques and artistic mediums--oil and cold wax, aaplied in gestural action strokes often with spatulas and dry wall trowls, to recreate place memories for my past and the past of others close to me. that are usually in themselves, re-creations or restorations of times past. Welcome to In Search of Lost Places or A La Recherche Du Places Perdu --------Chrisite Barnes artist
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Abstract Impressionist New Uses of the PastCheval Blanc, Basel Switzerland --Favorite Basel Retreat Chateau Arribas, near Disney Paris, France- forging perfection in glass
Abstract Impressionist Memories Rules, London's Oldest Restaurant (below) The Carlyle Hotel, NYC (below) Scene of my wedding reception and dinner So many breakfast watching my husband write movie scripts & where Charles Dickens wrote daily
Abstract Impressionist Inspirations The Versace Mansion pool (above) The Hearst Mansion pool (above) the inspiration behind my daughter's design career the inspiration for my son's empire building
  • Abstract Impressionist Inspirations Which looby is this? Most 'horror' genre lobbies look alike the Savoy Bar, London, completely unchanged this combines several --Tower of Terror to The Shining since my bachelorette party
Abstract Impressionist Commentaries Ritz Carlton, Miami Beach perfectly completely restored and restoring to all who visit
Abstract Impressionist Ever-changing Unchanging Cities My brother navigating a new Tokyo Life Scrambled, Greenwich Village NYC my daughters favorite breakfast haunt
Abstract Impressionist Landscapes Giverny Winter Giverny Summer
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