Thursday, 19 November 2009

As I continue my research into Attatchment Theory (John Bowlby's 'Attachement and Loss' being the bible here!) and the nature of grief through sociological and psychological explanations, I have been thinking on an experimental level about my memory box. Since I was a young girl I have kept a collection of certain unusual objects and letters which spark certain emotional and visual memories for me, and have stored them in a jumbled manner within their container. I intend trying to break this confine, to explore the separate, individual nature of each object, and how they fit together within the collection. During this process of separation I will be recording, recollecting and re-living the nostalgia of these physical memory associations... and then I will be begin the individual deconstruction of each; hopefully aiding the process of deconstructing the confines of my own closed and confused approach to dealing with loss. What will I do with these 'memory objects' after I have dismantled them? Will I put them back in the box... or can they never return to it?...

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