From There to Here

摘要

You may ask yourself, well, how did I get here?1 I wrote a letter to Edmund de Waal nearly two decades ago, which could be seen as the genesis of this piece of writing. There are numerous ways to tell the story of the intervening years but I have chosen to map a backwards trajectory in pursuit of that letter. In my studio the ever-present radio informs me that human memory is now understood to have much in common with the imagination and that recalling a relatively distant memory is unavoidably contextualised by one's current circumstances. Time makes unreliable narrators of us all.