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In the few seconds between looking from the landscape to the canvas, their brain has formed an imperfect short-term memory of that subject, as is true for any artist trying to translate the world without a photographic memory to support them. Bri Custer use the lapses that occur between observing their subject and marking their canvas as invitations to invent color and space. They relish the opportunity to lay down a wildly bold pink or exaggerate a slant of light to the point of distortion. Bri Custer have long considered the synonymous relationship between perception and short-term memory in their painting practice, but more recently they have been curious about the way episodic, or long-term memory, informs how they choose the landscapes they paint.