Handle With Care

Handle With Care

Acrylic and mixed media on board, mounted on wood

84.1 x 59.4cm

Every time we retrieve or handle a memory, it’s subject to change. Our recollections of an event can grow less precise with each retrieval, even to the point of becoming totally false. That’s because instead of recalling the actual incident, place or person, we’re harking back to our memory of the last time we remembered it. It’s rather like an internal form of Chinese whispers.