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Contemporary Abstract Paintings on Canvas: Shape Memory Game 
Abstract Canvas Art Series · 2025

  • Abstract paintings on canvas exploring playful nostalgia, fragmented recollection,
    and emotional coding.

     

  • Mixed-media works in which memory surfaces as geometry, scattered, vivid,
    and never quite resolved.

Abstract painting on canvas — Issla peint un Annderrl — acrylic, yarn, tape, thread, 
wood block, 60x60 in, Philippe Halaburda, 2025, Newburgh NY

Issla peint un Annderrl

Acrylic, color tape, yarn, thread, and wood block on stretched canvas 152 x 152 cm - 60"x 60", USA, 2025.

Available

Abstract painting on canvas — Rappelle toi Biilmess Asill — acrylic, yarn, tape, thread, 
wood block, 60x60 in, Philippe Halaburda, 2025, Newburgh NY

Rappelle toi Biilmess Asill

Acrylic, color tape, yarn, thread, and wood block on stretched canvas 152 x 152 cm - 60"x 60", USA, 2025.

Available

Shape Memory Game is a series of contemporary abstract paintings on canvas built
around the act of remembering, and the distortion that comes with it.

 

Rather than reconstructing memory as narrative, the work renders it as sensation:
bright, fragmented, layered, and slightly out of reach.

 

It pops. It blurs. It refuses to settle.

“Memory doesn't replay, it reassembles.
Every time, something shifts.”

About the theme of Drawing Memory

Shape Memory Game is a series where I engage abstraction as a playful yet poignant exploration of fragmented recollection and emotional coding.

The process begins with layering: geometric forms, colored threads, and found objects, each an emblem of stored
or distorted memory.


The seemingly chaotic composition mimics the disorder
of remembering: moments surface with sharp clarity,
then blur into noise.

Details abstract painting on canvas Issla peint un Annderrl
Details abstract painting on canvas Rappelle toi Biilmess Asill

Bright colors evoke youthful exuberance and curiosity.

Intersecting lines introduce tension and structure, the subconscious effort to make sense of scattered data.

 

There's a sensory overload to the work, yet every color
and form has intent, creating a cognitive map that mirrors mental sorting.

The emotions range from joy to confusion to nostalgia, urging the viewer to trace their own internal circuitry
of memory and meaning.

 

This series is not about fixed answers.

 

It's about the constant mental ping-pong between remembering, forgetting, and reinterpreting.

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