The Photo Project

This project has been a journey of exploration in attempt to recover memories from a ten year period of my childhood which is undocumented. I endeavored to do this because my Mom had a brain injury and no longer remembers this time so I set out to see how much I could remember. This life experiment was facilitated by a shoebox which held envelopes full of photos in random and at times unidentified order. Last year I went through and tried to put them in chronological order according to the dates written on the envelopes. For this project I went through and randomly selected one picture for each year. Later as I started to write my picture memories I realized that this time period is bookended by pictures of my Mom lying in a hospital bed. The posts that follow are my attempt at the recollection of those memories as best I can in order to recover these "lost" memories.