After Skin & Bones

After Skin & Bones

Our memories are the core of our identity. But instead of a faithful record, this life narrative consists instead of constructions and reconstructions that we are constantly resurrecting in new external frames of reference. They inevitably fall short of the ideal – even of the real – as the sense of the ‘original reality’ increasingly recedes.

A trip back to a family home in a small village in Spain caused me to realize just how much my own memories differed from reality. My interaction with this place changed while new thoughts and new perceptions came to the fore. The impossibility of translating a full sense of what this place and these sensations have meant to me parallel similar frustrations in the act of photography itself.