Abstract:
I have battled memory loss since I was a child; details of my life shift and slide into
oblivion. My creative project explores this issue in depth. After extensive research, I modelled
my project after our current understanding of memory processing. Museums function much like
the brain’s system of encoding, storage, and retrieval, so I used the term as a metaphor. The
installation consists of multiple ways of viewing the same material, because repetition aids the
formation of new neural pathways in the brain. The goal of this project was to preserve
memories as I made them, to help contextualize my identity. However, I found it equally
important to acknowledge mistakes and failures along the way. Thinking about the concept of
inaccessible information, I drew comparisons between the malfunctioning of a camera and the
human brain.
