Paramnesia
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Paramnesia
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In making the Paramnesia works, Scacco began by drawing eight boundaries (which span three countries and six cities) relevant to her personal history. These eight lines were drawn with water on one large sheet of stretched paper. Black gouache was dropped into the water drawings and lightly misted. As the paper reacted, hills and valleys formed. Paint organically spread across the plane into new territories, eventually causing the eight individual origins to become one. These ties were then severed by cutting the paper into its eight original sections. Each place, once organically connected, is now segregated. Their interconnectedness will always exist, but is now discarded as an unimportant detail. The language repeats throughout the eight works: the only remaining evidence of the territories once being unified.

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In making the Paramnesia works, Scacco began by drawing eight boundaries (which span three countries and six cities) relevant to her personal history. These eight lines were drawn with water on one large sheet of stretched paper. Black gouache was dropped into the water drawings and lightly misted. As the paper reacted, hills and valleys formed. Paint organically spread across the plane into new territories, eventually causing the eight individual origins to become one. These ties were then severed by cutting the paper into its eight original sections. Each place, once organically connected, is now segregated. Their interconnectedness will always exist, but is now discarded as an unimportant detail. The language repeats throughout the eight works: the only remaining evidence of the territories once being unified.

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