"Repurposed Memory" 1989-2009 Ben Harubin- found objects, acrylic, caulk on circuit board on board.
Commentary:
Consider the phenomenon of hypnotic regression: a subject is hypnotized and experiences "repressed memories."
Memories of past events that have been "repressed by the conscious mind" are "brought to the surface."
Never mind that some of these memories are quite fanciful to a large segment of the population, especially to the population of scientists- (memories of UFO abductions and past lives...)
Sometimes this type of hypnosis is taken as revealing the truth- about early child abuse, for instance, and then rejected as being unsound.
It seems to me that the real value of such new remembrances is outside of the realm of science- it involves the existence of things which cannot be proven, such as your awareness- things which can only be lived (paradoxically, living it is the only REAL proof, as far as I'm concerned.)
Abductees, and others, seem to get a real kick out of their new memories. As if everything is turned upside down, and the simplest things are not what they were previously.
If anyone wants to become someone new,
or to become that which they have always dreamed of becoming,
or to explore fully this amazing experience of life, of being alive-
-they would have to reinvent themselves from the top to the bottom,
rippling from the future to the past
(what makes you think that those wieners who wrote it down in the first place knew shit about shit?)
And so I ask: "Who do you want to be today?" and "is it Way Kool?"
Consider the phenomenon of hypnotic regression: a subject is hypnotized and experiences "repressed memories."
Memories of past events that have been "repressed by the conscious mind" are "brought to the surface."
Never mind that some of these memories are quite fanciful to a large segment of the population, especially to the population of scientists- (memories of UFO abductions and past lives...)
Sometimes this type of hypnosis is taken as revealing the truth- about early child abuse, for instance, and then rejected as being unsound.
It seems to me that the real value of such new remembrances is outside of the realm of science- it involves the existence of things which cannot be proven, such as your awareness- things which can only be lived (paradoxically, living it is the only REAL proof, as far as I'm concerned.)
Abductees, and others, seem to get a real kick out of their new memories. As if everything is turned upside down, and the simplest things are not what they were previously.
If anyone wants to become someone new,
or to become that which they have always dreamed of becoming,
or to explore fully this amazing experience of life, of being alive-
-they would have to reinvent themselves from the top to the bottom,
rippling from the future to the past
(what makes you think that those wieners who wrote it down in the first place knew shit about shit?)
And so I ask: "Who do you want to be today?" and "is it Way Kool?"
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