The image above is the Korean artist Do Ho Suh’s haptic memory of the bathroom of the apartment he lived in for 18 years (but no longer lives in) on West 22nd Street, New York, NY.
The creation of this house-inventory memorial through rubbing also charges the rubbed objects themselves with electrons (due to friction)—or, perhaps, with memories. I wonder if it is also possible to evoke a memory of a person using this technique.
I love this idea -- a mirror image, as if the process of inventorying a house creates for the objects a memory of the inventorying. Like buildings that remember that they've been photographed.
Sending digital hug. This is what I love about your writing, Adam -- you NEVER write what anyone would expect. I could say "who was that person?" but though I've known you for a long time it would be an intrusion. But you make me think more deeply about expressing what has happened in my long life!
The creation of this house-inventory memorial through rubbing also charges the rubbed objects themselves with electrons (due to friction)—or, perhaps, with memories. I wonder if it is also possible to evoke a memory of a person using this technique.
I love this idea -- a mirror image, as if the process of inventorying a house creates for the objects a memory of the inventorying. Like buildings that remember that they've been photographed.
Beautiful piece of writing!
Sending digital hug. This is what I love about your writing, Adam -- you NEVER write what anyone would expect. I could say "who was that person?" but though I've known you for a long time it would be an intrusion. But you make me think more deeply about expressing what has happened in my long life!
thank you germaine!