Liv Porter

Cataclysm

3 rooms displaying the memories and objects of two characters

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I walk through my memories with ignorant bliss. Forgetting the wrong doings and hardships. I only see the world that I want to see. I look at memory as something to long for. An old house that was left uninhabited for years, only seeing it as the place of my childhood. Seeing the adventures and laughter and ignoring the sadness and uncertainty that came with it. I talk of these places as the happiest times of my life, and they were. We hold onto them because of the joy they bring us. But what if we hold on too tight and don’t let it breathe? What happens to our memories then and what do they look like when we take our hands off? Do they still exist in the same space as they did before or do we see the corrosion left behind?

Each room is what we ignore. What we leave behind for others to find and take care of. The pieces of us that signify our lives and who we were. We have the personal objects that tell the story of our space. Every object has its place and function. There is the space we share with our family. We get to see the smallest details into their relationships. What they might have meant to each other. Collectively, they let us peek into the memories left behind. What they might look back on and think of fondly, even if it’s all just decay.

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