TRACES OF MEMORY
Memory is a ''trace" in our "memory", imprinted like footprints on a sandy beach, which the tide will take away or it will withstand over time and be forever engraved into the rock of our memories. Memories follow us throughout our life. Some are pleasant and causing joy, and some are unpleasant and causing sorrow… but still present in ourselves as long as we exist. Sometimes we wish to efface them, forget about them, but simply they are present and exist as a part of us and our lives. They are equivalent of our experience and tell us how much we have been through, have done and achieved. Some memories we call upon and keep our dear people and memories in them. Nobody remembers what was unimportant. Only trifle matters fall into oblivion.
Paper, as a crumbling material, will fade out "the traces of my memories," in some time, but I hope it will ‘’live’’ long enough to call upon the memory of myself. In this series of drawings, the time has been accumulated, the memory of past experiences. Without making it concrete. I erase the boundaries between the personal and general, the original and adopted. I present recollection only in the form of tracks, grooves and outlines, that remind us of the time that elapsed. The trace indicates the absence and, according to Deconstruction philosophy of Derrida, it precedes presence. For that reason, it is something that produces presence in its erasure. It reminds us of the transience and unrepeatableness of the moment. "Traces of Memory" introduce us into the world that is awakened by cultural relations of the present towards the past and strive to draw this relationship closer in a form of more creative and suggestive approach to call upon memories, since they are confirmations of existence and reflectance of our lives.
Paper, as a crumbling material, will fade out "the traces of my memories," in some time, but I hope it will ‘’live’’ long enough to call upon the memory of myself. In this series of drawings, the time has been accumulated, the memory of past experiences. Without making it concrete. I erase the boundaries between the personal and general, the original and adopted. I present recollection only in the form of tracks, grooves and outlines, that remind us of the time that elapsed. The trace indicates the absence and, according to Deconstruction philosophy of Derrida, it precedes presence. For that reason, it is something that produces presence in its erasure. It reminds us of the transience and unrepeatableness of the moment. "Traces of Memory" introduce us into the world that is awakened by cultural relations of the present towards the past and strive to draw this relationship closer in a form of more creative and suggestive approach to call upon memories, since they are confirmations of existence and reflectance of our lives.