LOOK 2025: Forgetting

words by: CL

What if we started every day like we never lived the one before? Lost of the burdens of the people you pissed off or the time spent dwelling in embarrassment of moments passed. Sure, we'd also be lost of the good things too but imagine if we spent all of our days just creating those good moments as if they were to be lost by the next day. 

Instead, in this instantaneous and documentable world that we live in, we've subjected ourselves to the fear of what is to be remembered even when we know that the most memorable moments can't be saved on a hard drive or in a photo. Yet we cover our faces for unprompted photos, behave like we're being watched and live in how we want the archive to look rather than how it is. We are building our own history before it has even happened, making sure that it is to be told exactly how you want it to be. Full control, no mishaps, no embarrassment, documentation for a future generation that may not even exist at the rate that we are going. 

But what if we could retest our memory again. Where things aren't remembered in photographs but in feelings and moments around things that it happened by. An old lamp post where you last laughed so hard it made your stomach hurt, or the crack on the sidewalk where you last cried. And to bury them in memory so deep even a new day couldn't take it away. 

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