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Published in Re: [aap_2019]
2020
Debt to Memory is a poetic examination of time, loss, memory, and perception. Personal reflections interweaving intimate moments with existential inquiry, the text explores themes of impermanence, the fluidity of memory, and the ways in which objects and images shape our understanding of the past and the present.
Reflecting on photography’s relationship to memory, and the way words or images attempt to preserve emotions, whether capturing a moment preserves or alters the moment is questioned. Memory is unstable, rewritten each time it is recalled, shaped by loss and reconstruction, much like the Ship of Theseus paradox: if a ship’s parts are gradually replaced, is it still the same ship at the end of the journey? The text is a dissection of how one attempts to hold onto time, despite its inevitable passage.
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