2021

QUESTIONS

1. What does memory agency look like?

   Can the act of forgetting become a work of art?

   Can the failure to remember become a source of power?
   

2. What are the perceptual effects of trying to remember being born?

   What are the effects of seeing a moving image archive of the self from a time you can’t recall?

   How does consent play into this?

   Can the universal trauma of being born relate to other traumas that alter the memory-making system of the victim?

EXPERIMENTS

1. Gesture

   Memory tracing, mapping, layering, collaging, blurring, following, distorting, visualizing, abstracting

2. Space

   Image space (square - painting or video - 4:3, 16:9), uterine space, amorphous in-between space of clarity and confusion

3. Shape

4. Composition

   - Medieval vs Modern

   • Collage

5. Medium

6. Movements

7. Scripts
   Illustrating scripts

Future Experimentation:

7. Sound

8. Sculpture

9. Projection

PARADOXES:

1. Green as Natural Environment vs Green as Manipulated Environment

2. Memory Construction vs Memory Manipulation

3. Childhood Consent

CULTURAL REFERENCES:

1. Memory Distortion via Sexual Abuse

2. Memory Manipulation via Psychological Abuse

3. Memory Manipulation in a Court of Law

4. Memory Manipulation in Elderly Communities