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"And each part of the whole falls off
And cannot know it knew, except
Here and there, in cold pockets
Of remembrance, whispers out of time."
John Ashbery.

Memory is something intangible. There is an essence, but even this is fleeting and transient. Just as you feel you have grabbed it, it slips and slides, changes and dies. Its ephemeral fragility is what makes it so beautiful.

We are a product of our memories and their ability to be subconsciously manipulated. The rhythm of memory, and their importance, changes with time and experience, creating an interwoven mixture of fact and fiction, whose lines are irreversibly blurred. Their fragility is brought about through their close relationship with what, in many ways, is still present, yet undoubtedly absent. Our linear understanding of space and time is dismantled, time seems to have arrested.

Likewise, locations can both transform and be transformed by memory. Some locations seem to inhabit a visionary landscape, silent and disturbing yet oddly familiar, as in dreams. Through the embroidery of decay they hold a historical narrative of their own which sculpts the space creating a potent array of memories, which haunt and bewilder the viewer.

We may suddenly recognize the peculiar aptness of an image or correlation without necessarily understanding why it speaks to our imagination. Yet they carry a charge powerful enough to release memories, associations and emotions. Locations are therefore no longer literal. They are imbued with a supernatural character in accordance with their personal symbolic meaning.