I keep reading the last few lines over and over. How do I wake from sleepless nights is less of a problem when you look at the last word of this piece. It's philosophical and dark. A bit of reverse psychology. I won't capitulate. I will keep going. Wow!
Thank you ... my words are always open to whatever they say to someone - I like the of people making them their own ...
I like to look at things differently, it helps keep me moving forwards - do I believe that we can change the linear nature of time? I'm willing to try...
Thank you Richard. Your photos are very amusing sometimes: they tickle me and they make me consider things, and you're very gifted at "serialising" them. Green things and rubbish bins.
But this is different. It's these pieces that impel me to subscribe to your work, and I thank you very much for this.
I wrote a contrasting piece about memories and pictures, and may have referred it to you before, but here it is again: https://endlesschain.substack.com/p/superstition-and-photography. It mentions the purge in Iran ten years after the revolution, in which opponents and critics were not simply abducted and killed, but their images were also eradicated from photos.
They say we edit our memories, blotting out the bad ones and enhancing the good ones. I wonder in how far that's true and whether anyone could even prove it scientifically. My own feeling is that we remember things exactly as they were; what we change is how we now feel about what we remember.
Thank you Graham - that's very kind of you. I am fairly sure we don't forget things and i don't think it's about triggers or 'keys' to getting them back - we retrace our steps - we give ourselves enough time to guard our memories. I'm totally with you though about the memories not changing, we tend to feel nostalgia even for the worst of times, sometimes, given enough distance ...
The older we get, the more memories to sift through, the less time we have to recall them. At five years old, we have hundreds with easy recall. At thirty five we have millions with difficult specific recall. etc... At some point in time, the ability to recall all of one's memories is fruitless as the amount of time it will take to recall them all is more than the amount of time one may have left in life. See what you made me do 🥴 If only I had a photo for every memory.
Yes but hopefully we just make the effort to remember those worth remembering - the idea of a photo for every moment is one of the thing that kind of haunts me - not every moment, just certain ones, but I wonder if that might spoil it?
It's interesting that there's a kind of analogue there - I sometimes go through old photos, knowing that I have taken them, but having no recollection of it at all !
There should always be time to reflect and take solace from memories and I think it's a very important thing to do to keep you positive as the days slip by
I keep reading the last few lines over and over. How do I wake from sleepless nights is less of a problem when you look at the last word of this piece. It's philosophical and dark. A bit of reverse psychology. I won't capitulate. I will keep going. Wow!
Thank you ... my words are always open to whatever they say to someone - I like the of people making them their own ...
I like to look at things differently, it helps keep me moving forwards - do I believe that we can change the linear nature of time? I'm willing to try...
Thank you Richard. Your photos are very amusing sometimes: they tickle me and they make me consider things, and you're very gifted at "serialising" them. Green things and rubbish bins.
But this is different. It's these pieces that impel me to subscribe to your work, and I thank you very much for this.
I wrote a contrasting piece about memories and pictures, and may have referred it to you before, but here it is again: https://endlesschain.substack.com/p/superstition-and-photography. It mentions the purge in Iran ten years after the revolution, in which opponents and critics were not simply abducted and killed, but their images were also eradicated from photos.
They say we edit our memories, blotting out the bad ones and enhancing the good ones. I wonder in how far that's true and whether anyone could even prove it scientifically. My own feeling is that we remember things exactly as they were; what we change is how we now feel about what we remember.
Thank you Graham - that's very kind of you. I am fairly sure we don't forget things and i don't think it's about triggers or 'keys' to getting them back - we retrace our steps - we give ourselves enough time to guard our memories. I'm totally with you though about the memories not changing, we tend to feel nostalgia even for the worst of times, sometimes, given enough distance ...
"Be still"
Hi Richard,
The older we get, the more memories to sift through, the less time we have to recall them. At five years old, we have hundreds with easy recall. At thirty five we have millions with difficult specific recall. etc... At some point in time, the ability to recall all of one's memories is fruitless as the amount of time it will take to recall them all is more than the amount of time one may have left in life. See what you made me do 🥴 If only I had a photo for every memory.
Yes but hopefully we just make the effort to remember those worth remembering - the idea of a photo for every moment is one of the thing that kind of haunts me - not every moment, just certain ones, but I wonder if that might spoil it?
It's interesting that there's a kind of analogue there - I sometimes go through old photos, knowing that I have taken them, but having no recollection of it at all !
Thanks for sharing this, Richard. People love to talk about keeping memories alive, but rarely about how memories keep them alive.
There should always be time to reflect and take solace from memories and I think it's a very important thing to do to keep you positive as the days slip by
Loved the poem!
Thank you Rick!