Fading Memories 

 

Our past, present, and future are intimately linked by our memories. Recollections hold

 important knowledge about our lives and our personal attributes and traits. Through

mental time travel, memory can also directly transport us into our past as well as our

 future directing us toward the person we are yet to become. No one else has our exact collection

of remembrances; they are what makes each of us unique.

 

I began thinking of the validity of memories. Are they something that we actually experienced

or just a story that we have heard over and over until it becomes imbedded as reality?  

 

Occasionally, a distant memory will pop up triggered by some random thing or thought.  The

recall on the complete thought is sometimes hazy and you ask yourself, “Is my reminiscence correct?” 

As time goes by memories began to fade. They are ever-changing and evolving.  

 

Spurred on by past introspective thoughts, I started working with vintage portraits, combining

them with painterly textures.  I would blur these photos in an attempt to preserve their legacies.

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