I think my last post may make a great argument for an essay in my upcoming theory papers so I have decided to park it for now. It really was a bit of catharsis to make that complaint.
Now I'm thinking more towards the work I'll produce this year. I have an exhibition in July that I want to look at memory in boxes. In some ways these boxes are made of obsessions. As memories get replayed they become selected to be important. What is the mechanism that we use to make the selections of the memories we want to recall, want be make part of our on going narrative? How do these shift through time? Do we "game" these memories?
I realise from experience it is easy to believe that certain memories have a resonance that makes them seem magical or precognitive. You can construct your imagined future based on memories. You can fall into a "memory game" full of "ah ha!" moments and co-incidences made real. And the next thing you know you have been diverted from where you thought you were going.
What are the elements that can divert us? A longing, a need, a habit, an anxiety?
Now I'm thinking more towards the work I'll produce this year. I have an exhibition in July that I want to look at memory in boxes. In some ways these boxes are made of obsessions. As memories get replayed they become selected to be important. What is the mechanism that we use to make the selections of the memories we want to recall, want be make part of our on going narrative? How do these shift through time? Do we "game" these memories?
I realise from experience it is easy to believe that certain memories have a resonance that makes them seem magical or precognitive. You can construct your imagined future based on memories. You can fall into a "memory game" full of "ah ha!" moments and co-incidences made real. And the next thing you know you have been diverted from where you thought you were going.
What are the elements that can divert us? A longing, a need, a habit, an anxiety?