”To those who depart” was the second canvas produced during my period living in Germany. With an unconventional size, 50x50cm², finished in June. After my experience with a new brand of oil colours at the piece, ” I don’t wanna play outside”, of May, the next step was the production of something that could make me put in practice the light through leaf, flowers and glass, as well the light points of fruits, traditional themes of visual arts as dead nature. However, the technique couldn’t be a primary reason for the choice of the scene; the conceptual support was required: The grapes were consumed by half, the wine was in the end, the papers full of ink words, but the tulips are alive, clearly not affected by the rest that is, exactly, rest of something, that what remains.
     Moreover, in the same week, I’ve been writing a poem called ” For those who depart”. Originally, the whole poem would be registered on the pages painted on this piece, until the thought ”- The point is exactly how empty the memories become when the event is part unknown and generic, as data numbers of deaths, statistics, isn’t a relation of direct codependence between past, information, present”.  
We’re talking basically about the construction of the memory, the layers of visibility and acceptable events that in a certain and relative way, doesn’t affect directly your reality: An image, a number, are normally a spot of meaning that belongs to a web of information than by your individuality: Millions of people were murder; is not about the singularity of those personalities and conditions, is a fantasy-half-invented image on mind, what I could call as ” tolerance of abstraction”.
”For those who depart”. – Page II, part IV.
 Are lost times; because time won’t bend
 to the hourglass under the political chess
 made of flesh;Â
 (…)
 Forgotten then; has no reason to worries
 ‘Cause history will build a numerical future
  with the beauty of the dead bodies devoid
  of names in their souls;
  Spurned on this century grave of the eternal
  progress;
V. Gama – April, 28th.
”To those who departs”
Oil under Canvas
Vannie Gama
June, 2018.
50x50cm².
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