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Fading Memories: A Collaborative Show 30 Years in the Making
From the Memories of Melvin Tays and Marlene Wellard
Time
“Farewells can be shattering, but returns are surely worse. Solid flesh can never live up to the bright shadow cast by its absence. Time and distance blur the edges; then suddenly the beloved has arrived, and it's noon with its merciless light, and every spot and pore and wrinkle and bristle stands clear.”
― Margaret Atwood
Emotion
“I can only note that the past is beautiful because one never realizes an emotion at the time. It expands later, and thus we don't have complete emotions about the present, only about the past.”
― Virginia Woolf
Perception
“Different people remember things differently, and you'll not get any two people to remember anything the same, whether they were there or not.”
― Neil Gaiman,
Childhood Home: I have dreams....Magical and scary....hidden spaces......
I remember the taste of watermelon
“God gave us memory so that we might have roses in December.”
― J.M. Barrie
And that was when I couldn't remember what Happened first
Of Caskets and Grave Side Stillness
Someone died. Everyone was sad. I didn't know why. I felt lonely.
I wanted to Be like her
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Who was she? I have no idea.
But at the time she was everything to my teenage mind.
The Land of Enchantment
From her arms I wandered, far across the sea
I often heard her gentle words haunting me
"Come back amigo, I miss you so"
To the Land of Enchantment, New Mexico.
-Land of Enchantment
by Michael Martin Murphy
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Her Eyes Are Blue
I know her as she is now.
In most ways she hasn't changed.
I think back on the young mother I knew
who sang us to sleep at night.
Her young face looking down on me is as a faded photograph.
I do know though that her eyes were blue.
“What I like about photographs is that they capture a moment that’s gone forever, impossible to reproduce.”
― Karl Lagerfel
“Your memory is a monster; you forget—it doesn't. It simply files things away. It keeps things for you, or hides things from you—and summons them to your recall with will of its own. You think you have a memory; but it has you!”
― John Irving
“You should always be taking pictures, if not with a camera then with your mind. Memories you capture on purpose are always more vivid than the ones you pick up by accident.”
― Isaac Marion