RE | Collect Count Construct

Abstract

Many factors affect our recollection, causing our memories and stories to constantly evolve, bit by bit. Our perspectives on things, what we have been through, and how we expect things to happen, all impact our memory retrieval. Every time we recount a story we are unwittingly rewriting our experience, making them subject to distortion and reconstruction and not as dependable as we would expect them to be. This publication explores this process of memory development through its connection to narration and storytelling by presenting a series of recollections of shared experiences. Each event is retold from two different perspectives, which are made distinct by the different colors used in the text. The way in which a story is narrated by each person helps us understand each person’s perception of the event, and from that, the dependability and subjectivity of the memory. The memories are typographically expressed, visualizing the way the story has been told. Overlapped words indicate repetition, stacks of curved lines communicate parts of the story that the other person did not mention, and sentences that are attached express speech. At the end of each story, I try to analyse the story as I see it, identifying different factors that could have affected the reconstruction of the memory.