Thursday, June 3, 2010

On curios and photographs

When on a holiday , we begin clicking pictures as soon as we land and we collect curios of the local places we visit. I for one prefer pieces of wood, pebbles etc.to man made ones.The enitire trip seems to be captured in these two formats, set in time.
Makes we wonder whether these articles we gather and the pics we click help us to recall and capture the visit, moods , places or limit our memories to these two formats.At some level they are an impediment coz after some years that is all we remember of the places...the few pics and an odd inanimate object. If we did not have these,maybe,our memories will be more fresh and vivid ,we will have a larger repertoire of images to fall back upon,a new detail or scene may emerge if we trusted the mind's eye?
On a trip to Goa,I did not take the camera and clicked no pics , yet the memory of the place is intact ...will it still be after 20 years have elapsed when the memory will have faded or will i sit one evening with my son, with whom I took the holiday , and together we will unspool our memories, one scene at a time , each filling in the details of the outline that the other recalls?I wonder...

1 comment:

  1. PP u hit the nail squarely on the head! Being responsible in what you buy, how you behave, what you do to add back to your life and to that of the community and culture of the place you visited -is what makes for an ever lasting experience

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