Proem - in memory of my mother

“Where does a thought go when its forgotten?”

(Freud)

My initial thoughts for Forgotten Places was about who forgets? That forgetting is a human aspect that loosens the conjoining of time and space, so either one or both fade from memory. These terms succinctly encompass Heidegger’s term for human existence, Dasein, literally translated as ‘there being’, or as we would say, ‘being there’, so Dasein locates the human in place and time. Forgotten also suggests a point in time prior to forgetting, that consciously locates the human in time and place, where the interaction between the human and landscape meet and are known.

These meetings or encounters are events, performative happenings, where subjective-objective dialogue/s takes place, in time. These meetings where the inner world of space meets outer world of place. In turn highlights the active potentials of a subjective world interacting with the latent potentials of an objective world and that, where - there, potentially presents in turn another unique world, art. In this realm, art presents potentials for opening up existence highlighting something uniquely unfolding and disappearing in time, this presence is a present, maybe not forgotten by those who witnessed it.

Filmed on location by Jacqui Devenney Reed