Lot I

Parasol is part of Paul Amaral’s Faded Dreams series, which is centered around the artist’s relationship with acquiring 20th-century found photography. Faced with the fact that much of the image details are unknown, Amaral began to think of what was originally aspired for in each photograph and how that purposeful connection was lost on him. Through abstraction, each piece plays with the idea of missing information and how a photograph’s meaning can change through ownership, as well as time, as a means of emphasizing that loss. Simultaneously, the work preserves each beautiful moment and allows for new life.