Recordare emerged after questioning whether repetition weakens a series or reveals its evolution. While its composition echoes an earlier work, the process shifted the focus from conflict to memory. The painting became less about the outcome of the chase and more about what remains after every encounter. Rather than replacing its predecessor, it accepts its role as a recurring motif viewed through a different emotional lens.

While developing the Requiem series, I realized that memory does not belong only to loss. Every confrontation, whether resolved or not, leaves a trace. That realization transformed the title from a reference to remembrance into a reflection on how past encounters continue to shape the present, long after they have ended.

Recordare (Latin for "remember") does not ask the viewer to recall a specific event, but to reflect on the persistence of experience itself. Within Requiem, the work suggests that every encounter—whether marked by conflict, escape, or survival—continues to exist through memory. The painting offers no conclusion, only the enduring presence of what has already been lived.