Recalling our memories by using all our senses.
Since I started the everyday project, I often came to think
about memory.Everyday life seems to be the same for most people, in other words we all experience the same things everyday. However what about our feelings or emotions every single day? They could be slightly different even when we did the same things, sometimes good, bad or indifferent. So while our life contains repetition of many things, we experience different feelings everyday but I do not remember how I felt on a particular day or what I was thinking about. People might think that we do not need remember all of this, I do not mean that to forget is bad thing but it also mean that we easily forget valuable experiences we feel in daily life. That thought made me write my everyday life journal and what is more, to deliberately try to reread it. My past reminds me that I made effort toward life. Through this practice, I found that when I was reading the journal, some images always come to my mind and I was trying to remember the days by using vision in my mind. Then I come to think of importance of vision and I started taking pictures of my daily life. I found that using all senses we have, for instance feel something, writing it by hand, which helps to know the feeling at the moment, reading them and recognize the past to then learn about yourself from it, all of this is very important to live a meaningful everyday life. The past often remains in our mind as an unclear image so to make images of things can inspire us because inside the brain, the minds visual senses and existing memories and knowledge can synthesise together. All the things we can see do not make up the full picture and if we rely on only the visible, that would also be a one sided point of view. So while some think the value of vision is in discovering the truth about external reality there is saying which contradicts this, namely, ‘appearances are deceptive’. In other words, perception and knowledge are frequently at odds with one another. Since I started to think about visual culture, I realized that today we live in in a media saturated environment and therefore the eyes experience a glut of imagery, which also means that we tend to be passive. I would think that we might need to commit to output our internal images as visual things by using any tools that what we have. If we could do it more freely, our potential to be
