Day 24

'Memento' Pencil on Paper

Today's drawing stems from something I talked about previously that being nostalgia, my reasoning for this is when tidying up some things earlier I stumbled across the above object, a small toy car that I found in my Granny's garden when I was bout 6 or 7 years old. It's amazing to me that even though it's been almost 20 years since I found it, it is one of only a few keepsakes and memento's that I would find it quite difficult to part with, as it's one of those things that for whatever reason elicits a flood of fond memories each time I stumble upon it. As I mentioned before we are by our very nature sentimental, we like to be reminded of what has passed, the memento's we keep are symbolic of attempting to hold on to what is important to us. The strange thing is although I would never consciously discard the above item, I tend to forget about it, forget that I even have it in my possession... so if it was a case that it was ever misplaced the chances are I wouldn't realise. In many ways this could be said of the actual memory itself and I want to leave you with this vaguely paradoxical notion to gestate over... if we ever completely forget to remember something then how can we remember that we ever forgot it?