b l i n d w r i t i n g

Blindwriting is an attempt to gather, store and revisit the streams of dreams and thinking.  It is a nostalgice memory bank, where memories are linked to objects, places, people and displayed, viewed, read or heard through this catalogue.

This is an experimental test page that has been started first as a typical blog, but then hopefully in efforts to begin to chronograph memories; a memory vault, a memory bank, where memories can be borrowed and loaned, stored and put away, shared or implied.

In 1996, while in architecture school I developed the thesis of creating a factory that produced and exchanged memories through objects.  At the time it was specifically furniture.  This is the chair I fell off when I was small and I don’t want it anymore, so I’m going to trade this chair in for that chair where a woman wrote her first novel.  I will read what that women’s memory is of that chair and make an exchange and thus have her memory, leaving behind my own in hopes to satisfy someone else.

In 1999 I revisited this idea by tagging image to memories, thus drawing blind for words, creating blindwriting.

It begins with life, but more personally around the time of 1987 or 1988.  I have to dig through the real paper archives to determine an exact date; but nevertheless, sometime around then.  I suppose this is when I first found infatuation, or desire for something else.  This is also the time when childhood was left behind and adulthood slowly crept in to writh its padded claws around my heart body and mind.

Its when I found the music I love.

Its when I learned the difficulties of independence.

And its when I started writing.

And its when I wanted more.

So, the feeling begins…