Narrative mixed media, long form text and photographs with datalinks interrogating faith of/within institutional relevance (Supported by The Campfuego Fund for Unemployed Writers)
"Hope," wrote Balzac, "is a memory that desires." This twinning of memory and desire helps clarify how the myths of modernity circulate with such powerful force. ... [Balzac] distinguishes between history (that which is ordered and laid out) and memory (that which lies latent and unstructured but which can erupt in unexpected ways). ...Memory is, in Balzac's judgment, "the only faculty that keeps us alive." It is active and energetic, voluntary and imaginative, rather than contemplative and passive. It permits a unity of time past and time future through action in the here and now, and therefore can erupt...at moments of danger. It brings into the present a whole host of powers latent in the past that might otherwise lie dormant within us. - David Harvey, Paris, Capital of Modernity, 2003
"Hope," wrote Balzac, "is a memory that desires." This twinning of memory and desire helps clarify how the myths of modernity circulate with such powerful force. ... [Balzac] distinguishes between history (that which is ordered and laid out) and memory (that which lies latent and unstructured but which can erupt in unexpected ways). ...Memory is, in Balzac's judgment, "the only faculty that keeps us alive." It is active and energetic, voluntary and imaginative, rather than contemplative and passive. It permits a unity of time past and time future through action in the here and now, and therefore can erupt...at moments of danger. It brings into the present a whole host of powers latent in the past that might otherwise lie dormant within us. - David Harvey, Paris, Capital of Modernity, 2003