Vicky Jocher Artist Blog, 1st Entry 2025 When I began sorting through decades of photos on my computer, I expected nostalgia — not revelation. But as I scrolled, I realised these weren’t just references for paintings or sketches of places I’d seen. They were snapshots of perception itself: how I had looked, framed, composed, and been present across forty years of artistic practice. Some of these images now stand on their own as fine art — released from their former duty as '

When I began sorting through decades of photos on my computer, I expected nostalgia — not revelation. But as I scrolled, I realised these weren’t just references for paintings or sketches of places I’d seen. They were snapshots of perception itself: how I had looked, framed, composed, and been present across forty years of artistic practice. Some of these images now stand on their own as fine art — released from their former duty as 'reference photos.' They have become memory