Charlotte Niel
Holes in my Memory
“There’s holes in my memory, it isn’t photographic.” Dedicated to Christina Li, Watsky I grew up with my mom telling me she “never remembered.” I would ask about her childhood, past life, loves, about our own family and she would just say she could not remember much. I was told that memory suppression is sometimes linked to trauma or abuse. Memories can be painful. Now mom is 95 years old and as with two of her other siblings, dementia is slowly creeping into her mind, shrouding what memory she has or buried. “Holes in my Memory” is a project about memory loss and the recreation of stories that were never shared, cannot be remembered or only imagined but reveal themselves through found photographs, postcards and memorabilia.
