week one - and so the project begins!

i speak to you now at the end of the first week of my final major project, to clear up afew things , its about memorie - im interested in using film or photography and its essentially a narrative project .

ive been reading some interesting texts as offered by fellow student gethan , oliver sacks is proving interesting as is the echo maker .

ive also been reading a book from the library , 'the science of memory' those of you in the drawing group will have noticed my head in a copy.im finding parts of it almost philosophical (maybe abit odd as it is a very very science heavy book)
threes parts that talk about the idea that maybe we never ever actually forget anything and we have enough brain space as it were to hold everything , other theorys revolve around the idea that we have a survival based brain so we only rememeber things we NEED to know to survive , obviosuly survivng now is aloyt different to surving in the caveman times , so our brains have developed and evolved with us , theres a really interesting bit about how memory shapes us , i am really interested in thinking about taht statement .i think its really important , the idea that memory makes us who we are and thus if we lost our memory we would loose ourselves as we and people around us know us.

practically speaking i have been writing alot , thinking philosophising and curating ideas , im considering writing a piece of performance or making a film.i think when thinkigna bout memory its quite important to think kinetically .

also ive began shooting my first reel of balck and white film which i plan to develeop nextweek
see how that goes .

some of you wouldve seen my work from over the hols? lots of burning and bleaching of photos i like this , but ima lready sort of bored so im thinking of moving on from this.