taxonomy of forgetting

taxonomy of forgetting (2007) An idiosyncratic archive evolved in my tenth year of motherhood derives from thought relating to our schemes of classification and the way in which we elect to remember and/or to forget. I am interested in the notion of classification, consciously and/or subconsciously we record to enable ‘forgetting’.. Imbued with intimacy these recovered items reference both the significant metamorphosis that motherhood provokes and the cherished first years of new life. Fragmented impressions.. a reference to both time and space; precious, chaotic, beautiful, challenging, emotional, exhausting, fulfilling. Within the photograph we facilitate the ability to contain, order, classify, outsource..