Fading Memories
Our past, present, and future are intimately linked by our memories. Memories hold
important knowledge about our lives and our personal attributes and traits; through mental
time travel, memory can also directly transport us into past as well as into the future, to the
person we are yet to become. No one else has the exact collection of memories.
I began thinking of the validity of memories. Are memories
something that you actually experienced or sometimes just a story that you have heard
over and over until it becomes a memory?
Occasionally a distant memory will pop up triggered by some random thing or thought.
The recall on the complete thought is sometimes fuzzy. You think “is that how it really
happened?”
As time goes by memories began to fade. They are ever changing and evolving. Spurred on by my introspective thoughts about memories, I started working with old photographs, combining my photos and textures. I would blur the photo as a memory might blur as it fades in hopes of preserving my legacy a bit longer.