VA 505/Address Studio Creative Practice

-150 words- My latest works are mostly about my memories, my memories from the past and  the future.  Mainly I record things that I want to remember, I draw the past I’d already lived with my own alterations and the future that I want to live through imagining it.  I also love quotes and asking questions. I love to combine graphic elements with texts. Text-Art is another inspiration for me because I believe I communicate better via words. Lately, I am inspired by J.L. Borges and Olivia Laing. Borges is, as already well-known, famous with his nondestructive short stories. Olivia Laing is a writer and cultural critic. I read her book “The Lonely City: Adventures in the Art of Being Alone” and the main scope of her is to question how we live without connecting another human being. She is searching for examples through art criticism. Keywords: narrative, not forgetting, remembering, personal memory, text art, past, future. -300 words- I...

Not forgetting.  I am trying to connect my own cultural memory and collective memory. I feel like I have an obstacle in my mind for connecting with the collective memory because of the lack of some family traditions and I discovered that I am unintentionally obsessed about "not forgetting". Also, I am aware that even "collective memory" terminology is problematic though, but it is another issue to discuss. Memories are like sediments. You think you forget them but their traces stay in your mind (in your subconscious) and they shape you while they are piling up. I guess I can say that my father's uncle had Alzheimer and I'm not sure it has affected me for having some kind of obsessions about "not forgetting". I am the only one in the family trying to collect family mementoes. Sometimes I feel like I have Tabula Rasa , like a blank mind with a slippery ground. No memory can stay there and that feeling affects me. I feel like I lose my memorie...