NIGEL BRIDGES cabinetmaker and artist craftsman
MEMORY STICK: 2001
Yew with burr elm base and sycamore pegs
70" x 13"
x 4"
£600
(UK delivery £50)
MEMORY
Marcel Proust’s novel ‘À la recherche du
temps perdu’ (Remembrance of things past)
opens when a whole chain of memory is unlocked by a cup of tea and a piece of
cake.
Memories can cascade in our minds, flitting between people, places, time, objects and sensations. We can also experience collective, or cultural memories, with which our own recollections weave. Memory can be a physical thing, and reside in an artist or craftsman’s hands. The hands often do things as if they have always known how to.
The memory of making is in,
'The memory of yesterday’s pleasures informs the fear
of tomorrow’s dangers’ - (paraphrase of John Donne)
To lose the power of memory is to lose the power to interact. Lost memory is the
penultimate decline.
Memory is about the future as much as the past.
www.nigelbridges.com