Chronic Mnemonics

The Chronic Mnemonics is an ongoing project to do with memory-keeping, neurodivergent processing and regulatory practices, nostalgia and self integration.

It is made up of hundreds of square panels with collaged mementos and sentimental objects sewn in using a sewing machine. It is designed to be hung together in a chronological mass, spanning my lifetime from early childhood to the present. 

The project is about the search for retrospective order within the chaos of remembered experience, and the compulsion to collect, organise and compartmentalise as a form of sensory processing. 

It is also a psychological countermeasure to the fragility of memory. The project itself is a literal embodiment of the urge to integrate conflicting aspects of the self to form a coherent whole, and the urge to reject the impermanence of the experiences that make up our consciousness and our existence.

Rhonia