"I have shadow memories of 'Saturday Night Live,' the whole revival of a franchise," he says.
Not even the ghost walnut with its non-branches whose every shadow is memory, memory.
Not even the ghost walnut with itsnon-branches whose every shadow is memory, memory..
Through Aug. 8. "Shadow and Memory: Ellis Island's Unrestored Buildings," exhibition featuring the photography of Christopher Barnes.
Cornell's shadow boxes or "memory boxes" or "poetic theatres," as he called them took the form of glass-fronted boxes containing found objects and collaged elements arranged in enigmatic, often poetic, juxtaposition.
Group photos are, as Liz Jobey says in one of the collection's most elegant essays, always in the shadow of "memory and death", few more so than in Luke Harding's account of the Taliban's defeat at the siege of Mazar-i-Sharif: most of that group are now in separate cages in Guantanamo Bay.
On the approaches to Old Trafford on Saturday, there was no escaping the shadow, the memory.
The production hovers between the shadows of memory and the haze of a summer's day.
Every afternoon, its runways are packed with cyclists, joggers, footballers, rollerbladers – and rather appositely, one man zooming a toy plane over the landing area, its tiny shadow casting memories of a former life across the heads of the new visitors.
What if our protestation comes to nothing, and the scene recedes into the shadows of memory?
