"What Do You See When You Close Your Eyes?"

Spencer George. What Do You See When You Close Your Eyes? Watercolor On Stonehenge Watercolor Paper. 2014.

This painting is an abstract take on the concept of phosphenes. Phosphenes are the dots you see when you close your eyes. I took an abstract take on this and choose to focus on the question of "What do you see when you close your eyes?" I imagined that a person in love might always see the other person in some way shape or form. The silhouette is supposed to symbolize the divide between memory and reality- in other words, the divide between what we see and what we want to see.