The Lost Art Project

An alternative art project where inner vision and stored emotions clash with poor data memory.

Do you recognise the artworks described here? This is a growing list of memories of wonderful artworks I once saw, but can no longer find out about. I have forgotten the name of the artist or the title of the work. Sometimes I can’t remember where I saw the art.

For all my notebooks, sketchbooks and ability to remember images, with these artworks, I am stuck. Memory lets go of data that I wish I could re-visit. It’s fascinating how the mind works. With films, I can remember the emotions while watching, but not the story. Bizarre how you can be so captivated by an experience, and then it fades…

This project is as much an exercise in memory as in trying to describe the unviewable. I’m collecting memories of memories…

(Marcel Broodthaers says that collecting is a form of practical memory.)