Through memories we piece together clips from the past, real details, and form a visual relocation of something that happened to you. Though we remember the main events of our memories, In Leonard Mlodinow’s “Remembering and Forgetting” section from Subliminal: How Your Unconscious Mind Rules Your Behavior, Mlodinow describes how unreliable memory can be, how you create gaps in memory and then fill it with false or stretched thoughts of our own.  We take familiarity and repetition of the ordinary of an event and make up our own details as we know it to be.  This piece shows the action of falling, as I did one day on the Cliff’s of Moher in Doolan, County Clare, Ireland.  The piece is done out of strips of wood to resemble a a familiar sight of a “Jenga” game falling over frozen in its movement.  Wood burnings of the surrounding area based on pictures and facts from being in the area make up some of the side as a representation of how our memories are visualized.

 

Process Work

 

(Pictures that wood burnings are based off, that are of the area that are known facts in my head, that help create the imagery of such a memory that happened so long ago)