What is remembered, how is it remembered, and how long will it last?
My 2024 graduation work Mnemonic Duology investigates this by looking at the relation between memory and notation. Music notation as a writing system archives the ephemerality of sound, and by extension archives an emotive force. The root of the word ‘music’ has its connections to the Greek Goddesses, the Muses. As daughters of the Goddess of Memory, they embody elements of culture – particularly music, poetry and theatre. By researching the etymology of these specific areas, my artworks aim to find the overlap.
More information on the works can be found on the work’s catalogue page, found here.
Memory has its structures
and its ruins.
In a room with you
your aura floods over me;
I am quiet,
I am calm,
I am in a dwelling of the
known.
When I write poetry, I rarely know where it’s going to go. But half the fun is stringing words together to explain an odd feeling or thought that had no words. That’s how I see poetry – explaining what we thought couldn’t be described. It’s quite like making pieces of a jigsaw puzzle, and then finding how they fit together from there.
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I had the opportunity and the privilege of having my own poetry and prose included in the book The Language of Hope by Jeanette Pritchard. The work analyses society and makes a call to action to build a better future for young people. I had the honour of being the voice for the young. The book includes 3 of my poems, Roaring Twenties, Compromise and Three Greek Ladies Ready to be Revived, as well my essay Observations from yours truly, a Youth. > Website
Film photography as time capsules.
