As one who is fascinated and utterly overwhelmed by the relationship between art and memory, this post by Stephen Alvarez really struck a cord.
I’ve been questioning this for years- do images create memories or do our minds shift those memories over time into what we wish to see? There is a reason family photos and home movies are all the smiling, happy-go-lucky moments and not those of anger, despair, and pain… Which in turn brings me to another question- by evading these dark moments in traditional and average documentation, are we just tricking ourselves and our images into seeing what we want?
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