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Thoughts on Memory
The language of memory does not conform to verbal language.
It does not rely on linear logic to mediate and relate.
It is a map without measure, a story without before and after. It is a history told simultaneously.
Among the seemingly random chaos, each thread is both the beginning and an end of the other.
Wander about in the universe of memory, blindfolded, led by the invisible hands of threads, I sense, smell and hear better – a receptive being.
As the body of threads begin to shift and move me from here to there, east to west, right to left, back and forth, it weaves me into a structure through which a particular memory suddenly takes form. It, however, takes form visually like the sun rises above the horizon, an instantaneous illumination.
Like a photographer and a painter, I “see” the totality of my thought emerges out of the invisible moving hands of threads that bestow meaning to the elements of a memory – that smile, this frown or that gaze – through their inter-spatial relationship within the woven structure.
