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Drawing from memory is similar to making up an onomatopoeia for a sound: I am bound by my body’s limitations, yet I can convey my human experience of my memory.
When I try to isolate a visual with a camera, or a sound with an audio recorder, it takes ages to find that human experience in the information I capture. A photo or a video never looks like the ephemeral moment, an mp3 never sounds like the ephemeral moment.
But I can draw what I think I saw, or make a sound a bit like what I think I heard. It’s easy to draw what I think I see.
Today I’ve done some drawings from observation, rather than from memory. You can find them on Live Archives Workshops Day3 and Daisy Abbott. People tell me they are better, but I prefer my memories - they’re brighter and more abstract.
Yesterday is bleeding into today. We didn’t have a projector today but I remember the visual trace.
I think I’ll stop trying to draw sounds now.
Yesterday’s herbs don’t smell so strong anymore.
Exploring the tea room for textures.
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