Let the Memory Live Again.

Sometimes, I feel like my memory's storage capacity is almost full.

endless notes and memorization.

As a student, I oftentimes curse my mind and my memorization capabilities, especially when exams are near.  It seems that at one point, no matter how many times I read or write the same thing, it simply doesn't stick.  "Scumbag Brain," maybe?

if you zoom in, you'll see they're tiny umbrellas.

While the limits on the human brain cannot be concretely defined, a computer's memory is very much pre-determined.  Currently, I am working on a visualizer, and whenever I run it, all is well for one minute, then the error "E_OUTOFMEMORY" starts to terrorize me.

Whenever I feel ready to kick my computer out of frustration, I remind myself that it is a gateway to online shopping and pretty pictures, and my murderous mood disappears.  It is on one of my stress-relief browsing sessions I found this dreamy, vintage-esque series.

In an era where anyone with a phone can be considered a photographer ( Instagrams, anyone? ), I find myself almost inundated by beautiful pictures of people's lives.  All the photos I see daily practically merge with one another, making it difficult to distinguish one photographer's work from the other.  I can only remember so much.  But Kate Pulley's works have forever ingrained themselves in my mind.

Her Polaroids are beautifully dreamy and instill in me a deep sense of nostalgia.  These scenes should be ordinary; lying in the grass and feeding geese are practically mundane activities.  But when I look at her work, I feel transported into a magical new realm set within reality.  I wish myself into the pictures, and if I try hard enough, they become a part of my memory.

this is a ghostly realm.

Some estimate our brains can store one petabyte ( or one million gigabytes ) of information, while others claim up to 14 petabytes.  I think my mind's capacity doesn't even reach one gigabyte, considering how forgetful I am.  But at least some of that space is reserved for remembering Pulley's ethereal's photographs.

{ Pulley's work here. }