Limen, Rose-Lynn Fisher

"Like those birds that lay their eggs only in other species' nest, memory produces in a place that does not belong to it. It receives its form and its implantations from external circumstances, even if it furnished the content ( the missing detail). Its mobilization is inseperable from an alteration. More than that, memory derives its interventionary force from its very capacity to be altered-unmoored, mobile, lacking any fixed position. Its permanent mark is that it is formed by arising from the other and by losing it ( it is no more than a memory). There is a double alteration, both of memory , which works when something affects it, and of its object, which is remembered only when it has disappeared.Memory is in decay when it is no longer capable of this alteration. It constructs itself from events that are independent of it, and it is linked to the expectation that something alien to the present will or must occur". - Michel de Certeau

via The City of Collective Memory: Its Historical Imagery and Architectural Entertainments,Christine Boyer

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Josef, Liminal Spaces, Rose-Lynn Fisher