Idris Khan
I became very interested in the work of an artist. Idris Khan, a group of his works are presented in a very interesting way, it seems to be exactly the same as the feeling I remember, sometimes clear and sometimes confused. He digitizes his work, a process that allows him to control minute details of contrast, brightness, and opacity. The resulting work is more painterly than photography. I wanted to make similar work. Because I like the vague picture. However, the premise needed material, so I took many photos of trees, and then selected the material that was closest to my memory. And his work is also black material of tree has always been the subject of my work because I have always been influenced by the black tree in my hear
For the project, he selected a group of London architectural landmarks, each one an intrinsic part of the capital city, indelibly bound to its fabric and history. This is also how Londoners, people in Britain, and people around the world will remember these buildings.
The final images are an amalgam of between 70-100 layers of photographs of the same subject; sometimes using the whole image and at other times particular fragments, Khan worked with a variety of source material dating from the 1930s onwards, which included stock photographs as well as mass-produced tourist postcards. By a complex process of assembling and erasing he built up a pictorial palimpsest, stretched over time, which captured the essence of each iconic structure.
Death, Memory and Material Culture
Elizabeth Hallam , and Jenny Hockey
This book is about relationships between death, memory, and material culture. Death is a life crisis, a conjuncture of changes and transformations of the physical body, social relations, and cultural configurations. It's a little bit related to UNIT1 that I was working on earlier. Death is a phase of transition involving loss and adjustment and throughout this study, we examine the ways in which memory comes into play as an important aspect of the process of dying, mourning, and grief. So my reflection is whether or not I was influenced by the scene of the hanging woman. It brought me close to death for the first time in my childhood.
Other than that. The book shows that memory and the experiences it produces are identical -- this can be explained by the influence of scientific disciplines on the notion of "reality" or "reality" in memory. However, these concepts require further analysis of death and its accompanying trauma, loss, and emotional difficulties. Memory practices and experiences change over time and events with strong emotional involvement are more than three times more likely to be remembered for more than two years; This memory contains complete information about people, events, times, places, and how they happened and ended. So as I said before the most terrible thing in my childhood memory is a woman hanging from a tree. As I saw this scene, and some old people criticized me. And tell me I couldn’t see this. it's bad luck for u. Once I drowned while playing in the water. I couldn't breathe and I felt like I was in a dark area, and a big tree from my memory beckoned to me. But Until now I sometimes dream of that terrible scene at night. In these ten years, almost every month is repeated the same memory. So what I wanted to create work was to show the terrible memories of my childhood.
Why memory and emotion? The view that emotion and memory interact was adopted by some of the earliest writers in psychology. While James (1890) seems to argue that emotions tend to make experiences so memorable as “to leave a scar upon the cerebral tissues,” Janet (1889) argued that traumatic experiences interfere with the formation of memory, while Freud (1915) suggested that strong unpleasant emotions might be actively suppressed and inaccessible to consciousness.
The book showed me and explained that many of the episodes we encounter in our lives are emotional -- they bring us joy, sadness, or anger, or fear. These emotions are what affect our memory of these events. Memories differ in form or content from memories of non-emotional events. How accurate and complete these emotional memories are. Of course, the study of emotional memory offers an excellent opportunity to explore the biological underpinnings of memory formation, building on both the biological processes we know are associated with memory and the biological concomitants we know are associated with emotion. The study of emotional memory is also important if we want to understand autobiographical memory in general, because the events that occur in our lives, the events that make us who we are, often have some kind of emotional overtone. At this point, I think my emotions are partly influenced by the death of the woman's family. According to the adults, her son was a gambler, and the family ran up huge gambling debts. They even borrowed money at usury from the underworld. Possibly out of sympathy. When I was young, I was always sympathetic to them.
The book investigates what we know about memories of emotional events. As I've read before, emotions play an important role in memory. In addition, emotions have at least two different effects on memory. On the one hand, emotions can improve memory of the central plot, including the gist of the plot and incidental details related to the gist.
Emotions, on the other hand, seem to destroy memories on the periphery of the plot, especially those details that are neither relevant to the gist of the plot nor (spatially or temporally) detached from the gist.
So I think the emotion of the moment may have heightened my sensitivity to that memory, but in some details, I'm not sure it's accurate. And I also applied this feeling to my images
And then I saw a video called TED. Psychologist Elizabeth studies memory. More specifically, she studies false memories. False memories when people remember something that didn't happen at all, or when they remember something fundamentally different. False memories happen more often than you might think. And everyone makes false memories every day. This talk made me question my own memory. Is my memory as I recount it correct? So I started asking my parents and childhood friends about this. And they gave me very different feedback. Maybe their memory were confused, too.
If everyone's memory is often not clear. So what I'm going to do is I'm going to visualize it . and then I'm going to confuse it. It also expresses what I think. Because I'm confused about my own memory. As I said before, I took a lot of pictures of trees, I want to explain my memory by showing my work in a vague way. So you see these two different sets of pictures. One group is clear. One group is not clear. and I did a lot of sketches of trees. Like: Charcoal on paper , pencil on paper , charcoal on canvas and so on. That's what you're seeing right now.
There is a reference to the concept of trauma, which is clearly a modern concept. Its origins can be traced back to the 1870s when technological advances merged with the development of psychology and psychoanalysis. Later, the term was used to describe the effects of modern warfare on soldiers, such as shell shock and war neurosis. Thus, the original meaning of the word 'wound' changed from a physical injury to an internal trauma that troubled and stained the individual." Trauma "is not a visible injury, but a hidden wound whose symptoms resemble neurosis and hysteria in the form of intrusive nightmares and disturbing flashbacks that remind the sufferer of the initial experience in painful ways. Trauma is characterized by the vividness of spontaneous mental imagery and the latent ability to disrupt and distort the recollection of the original traumatic event, which is essential to understanding trauma and personal memory.
Perhaps I was traumatized by the sight of the woman's death. Because of my youth, I was facing death for the first time. I was conscious of fear and restlessness. So once I had a bad dream, I had delirium. This state lasts for about a week. So much so that my parents took me to the hospital to see the doctor.
In addition. As memory research reminds us in Chapter 6, forgetting has to do with the way memories form personal and interpersonal relationships, because memory shapes our present fit into the past by selecting, changing, and suppressing events and feelings.
Instead of being erased. So memory can be problematic, too. The TED video makes a similar point. Most people's memories are inaccurate. Maybe my memory is not accurate either. Because of the inaccuracy, I first tried to recover my memory of my work. But slowly I began to blur my memory and my works. This may be the real vague memory in my mind.
