A bookcase is often used as way to describe how our memories are stored, and in dementia how different types of memories are lost, and others retained. The narrative and factual memories being at the top, and the emotional memories at the bottom. The artist Nathalie Elemento explains her piece Delivrer as an exploration of the process involved in retrieving memories :”memory : the core, the form, the format (or formatting) that we are all required to undergo so that we can better re-transcribe or retransform it. Like immense receptacle libraries, we accumulate that is cultural, emotional, familial, political, that we then have to re-organise. Delivrer can be read not as a box of secrets but as an object to help us remember”. Perhaps three dimensional structures like this can be personalised to create ‘reminders’ of precious memories.
I know what I like 