“My obsessions stay the same - historical memory and historical erasure. I am particularly interested in the Americas and how a history that is rooted in colonialism, the language and iconography of empire, disenfranchisement, the enslavement of peoples, and the way that people were sectioned off because of blood.” PeopleWayLanguageMemoriesBloodHistoricalObsessionEmpiresRootedColonialismEnslavementIconographyDisenfranchisement Author:Natasha Trethewey
“The mind has a complex life that can seem quite autonomous - dreams, obsessions, unwilled memory are all instances of this.” MindDreamSeemsMemoriesComplexesObsessionInstanceAutonomous Author:Marilynne Robinson
“Films, like memories, seem to re-shoot themselves over the years, reflecting our latest needs and obsessions. In many cases they can change completely, and reveal unexpected depths and shallows. Will Four Weddings and a Funeral be seen one day as a vicious social satire? Could Jaws become as tearful and sentimental as Bambi?” NeedsYearsSeemsFilmSocialMemoriesCasesFourOne DayDepthObsessionUnexpectedSatireFuneralSentimentalViciousReflectingOur Wedding Author:J. G. Ballard
“There is also a particular area of sleep called slow-wave sleep. I immediately liked this idea. It turns out this part of sleep is where the brain basically gets into step with itself and gets into this one single phase of these relatively slow brain waves - around 10 Hz or so - and the whole brain 'fires all at once'. This is a brilliant bit of sleep where we consolidate memory and learning, and memory is one of my obsessions really.” IdeasWholeTurnsBitsMemoriesSleepBrainStepsFireParticularAreasWaveBrilliantObsessionPhases Author:Max Richter