there are things about you that
i cannot remember for you, so
Objects are vessels of memories.
Memory is situated in the order of time. It signifies a moment in your sequence, intersecting the sequence of history.
When we see, touch, smell, feel, or taste something, through the friction of senses, memories come to us.
By lingering with objects, we linger with memories.
Memories are personal.
sue shu - Sometimes I think about how we constellated, that time you sat so close to me that every time you exhale you’d practically dissipate into me, your smell swirled downs my neck and burnt ashes lingered on my sweater for a couple seconds longer, and I remembered, body is blade…body is paper.
Chế - Her pieces are a continuum of a meditation on personal affairs, utilizing objects to express music in relation to memory association, while also recalling her father’s career as a prominent music producer in their diaspora. Her placements offer a vague sense of grasping the intangible experience of life through the audial process.
Assembling a drink through a selection of objects, you are constructing a new “being.” Meanwhile, your selection of objects will bring back old memories as well as encoding new memories with the creation of this drink associated with the name, smell, taste and look.
The cyanotype you created is something you will keep from this event–a new piece of memory that can fade as time passes, but will remind you of this day every time you see or touch it.
images credit to: Jiayi Hou, Yumu Huo, Efran Tash, Kristen Xu