Inspired by  Freeing the Memory,1985 by Marina Abramović - where "... she recited every word of Serbian she could recall, including some in English and Dutch, until the well of words has dried and the performance is over." 

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Working with the idea of "freeing" memory, and combining it with my research around time, conflict and memory... I decided to attempt mapping a distorting memory. 

 

My friend recently experienced an act of direct violence, and as an experiment, over the span of a month, I would ask her to repeat her story (memory) to me. I would take notes, study them and then map them. 

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I then created these 4 visual responses, as an attempt to depict the change in narration and recollection with regard to the memories of the story, causality, experience, perspective and emotional upheaval. I used graphic elements to evoke a form based visual legibility rather than a text based endeavour.