Memory Skeletons - CAss Art Islington
Memory Skeletons is a collection of works that explore which details of a memory are required for it to remain true each time it’s recalled.
My work investigates how recall affects the integrity of the memory, and I’m fascinated with the properties of materials often using their inherent qualities to reference an element within my work, I want to find the qualia of memory, that is the subjective and personal reading and emotions attached to an experience,
Whenever we think of a memory we don’t recall it exactly the same, instead we bring to mind different elements or details which are pertinent to the retelling at that time. I’m interested in trying to find the core set of details of an experience which are needed for the recalling of that memory to be of the same experience each time. I devised a process to interrogate the minds eye’s of three subjects, in an attempt to identify the core details of a scenario.
I call this set of details a Memory Skeleton. The Memory Skeleton for an experience can be fleshed out with extra details, but it will still feel like the same scenario. In my work I apply a process which identifies these details and then use them to produce artworks.
The large Memory Skeletons have been influenced and informed by the associated smaller Satellite pieces; their creation informing the choices for the larger pieces as well as being works in their own right. These satellite works are like little snippets of the experience, rather like the fleeting flashes of a memory, when we know the feeling but don’t immediately remember the whole picture. They are the prompts that lead us to recall the whole experience.
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