Forgotten Memories
Forgotten Memories is a piece of hand-stitched, textile artwork that I created in 2022, to express the way I feel about not being able to access so much of my personal history, as a result of having Aphantasia.
The piece comprises 144 incidents from an old diary of mine, events that I had since forgotten. Each has been hand-embroidered onto organza and then coiled up, so it returns to its previous inaccessibility, while teasing us with the knowledge that there is something there, which we can't quite get at.
This parallels my inability to access past events from my life: a common issue for aphantasics because, without a mind's eye to allow them to reinforce memories visually, they slip away more quickly and more completely than is usual.