Time Future Contained in Time Past

Paint, cardboard, rubber and mixed media on wood

84 x 59cm

A personal response to memory and its close connection with the senses and place. The three boxes depict the infinity symbol (for long term memory); the number 7 as the magic number for the number of items that can be simultaneously stored in our short term memory; and my childhood house (we retain memories better if they are linked to a place). Neuroscience research now points to memory as having as much as a function for the past as for the future: our future projections are vital for survival (hence I have pictured an imagined version of myself as a much older woman).