MEMORIES.
They are a tricky thing.
We think we remember certain events exactly as how it happened.
But then is it really what happened, or is it our version of what happened?
Or is it someone else’s version of what happened that we have heard over and over again?
Or is it an ever-changing version that suits the narrative we want to weave?
We really don’t know.
Memories are susceptible to distortion. Sometimes it changes because we are only remembering a memory of an event, not the event itself, and with each retelling or remembering, we tweak the facts a wee bit, unknowingly. This makes us extremely confused when we cannot even rely on our recollection of certain events. But even if we may have a distorted version of what really happened in the past, the emotions associated with those memories seem to stay on. And these are triggered once again when you experience the same visuals, colours, tastes, sounds or smells. The actual sequence of events, or dates, or places, or people, or words spoken may end up being jumbled in our memory, but the emotions seem to be intact, reawakened by these sensory aspects.
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A Sky Full Of Thoughts
Artist James Turrell’s ‘Twilight Epiphany Skyspace’ brings together the many nuances of architecture, time, space, light and music in a profound experience that blurs boundaries and lets one roam free within their own minds
We Are Looking into It
Swiss-based artists Jojakim Cortis and Adrian Sonderegger talk to us about the evolving meaning and purpose of photography and the many perspectives it lends to history
Cracked Wide Open
Building one of the world’s largest domes was no mean task for anyone, let alone an amateur goldsmith, so how did Filippo Brunelleschi accomplish building not one, but two of them?
In Search of a Witness
In conversation with legendary artist Arpana Caur on all things epiphanic, on all things pandemic, and on all things artistic
Where the Shadows Speak
The founder of Sarmaya Arts Foundation takes us through the bylanes of his journey with Sindhe Chidambara Rao, the custodian of the ancient art form of shadow puppetry – Tholu Bommalata
Bodies in Motion
What happens to the memory of a revelatory experience when it is re-watched through the frames of a screen? It somehow makes the edges sharper and the focal point clearer, as we discover through Chandralekha’s iconic Sharira
Faces in the Water
As physical ‘masks’ become part of our life, we take a look at artists working with different aspects of ‘faces’ and the things that lurk beneath the surface.
A Meeting at the Threshold
The immortal actor exemplified all that is admirable about his profession, from his creative choices to his work philosophy, and his passing was a low blow. This is our tribute to the prince among stars – Irrfan
The Imperfect Layout To The Imperfect Mystery
Jane De Suza’s ‘The Spy Who Lost Her Head’ doesn’t feature a protagonist with superhuman skills of deduction, nor a plot that fits together like a jigsaw puzzle. Here, quirks and imperfections are pushed into the spotlight
Free and Flawed
Greta Gerwig revitalises the literary classic, Little Women, highlighting the literary journey of its temperamental and wonderfully flawed female protagonist, Jo March
