Development
If every interior is a temporarily assembled memory palace, and every memory palace a story-telling device, then every interior tells a story (Praz 1964b: 20)
In such a perspective, we might think of the space itself as a memory palace. Each location is lined up with imaginings that tell many stories: about the lives of the arrangers, but also about the objects themselves. In these respects the interior is a contingent structure of places and objects: loci and imagines.
I extracted a single object from each participant’s memory palace image and combined it with the commonality of object locations in the experimental analysis to rearrange and assemble these individual objects into a new overall domestic space.
This is both an overall image of the domestic space and an overlay of different fragments of memories and stories from different people. In this space, each object plays a crucial role in the telling of the story. This reconstruction responds to the fact that human memory is a multi-dimensional memory network that is constantly intertwined and superimposed with other memories, but also allows the viewer to evoke personal recollections and empathy in their observations, creating depth and multi-layered stories.
