Thursday, April 18, 2013

memories of spaces








It can be said that memories are often associated with certain places. The human mind relates each memory with a tangible element of the past, like objects, colors and places. The place of each individual’s dwelling is important for them and often they tend to relate their memories to them. Memories of a faraway childhood home never leaves our mind, as they encase our past in them and this past then forms our present. Once the house is no longer there, the displacement instigates identity issues. One reminisces about the perfect home of the past or the ‘not’ so perfect one. In both cases the individual forms an idea of a Utopian home and thus is plagued by the memories of the past. The remembering and forgetting and remembering and filling the missing gaps become a part of us. An individual’s house is the most secure place in their lives and they all desire for it to fulfill their notion of perfection. The relationship between the past and present helps conceptualize spaces and places and perfection is tried to achieve.







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