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There are questions that pass my mind when I see us shave slivers off time and save these for the future:What is memory? What do we want to remember? How do we want to be remembered? Will we always want these stored memories to be remembered or will we incur the later cost of trying for ourselves to buy "the slow death of Winnie" (Makhaya)

00h20 Monday
05, May
2008
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  1. lebogang nkoane

    I have asked myself the same question: http://75.co.za/lebogang_nkoane/2008/01/14

    and I am yet to find meaning to something that defines, to quite a large extent, the life I live.

  2. rudzani

    True, lebogang. I remember now, lion's head. Milan Kundera says in the opening lines of his book, "The Book of laugher and forgetting", "The struggle of man against power is the struggle of memory against forgetting." Thing is, when we take photographs we literally are cutting living moments and freezing them: the longer the exposure, the longer the moment even if the vision is narrow). Problem is, a lot of life is geared towards forgetting "and getting on with life". But what of these saved slivers of time - biltonged life-time - I would like to call it?

  3. Juxtapose

    iyo ru that's diep. read a book Once by this cat...err...well i remember the books name, "Giovannis Room" the author had this to say about memory:" "[i]t takes strength to remember, it takes another kind of strength to forget, it takes a hero to do both. People who remember court madness through pain, the pain of the perpetually recurring death of their innocence; people who forget court another kind of madness, the madness of the denial of pain and the hatred of innocence; and the world is mostly divided between madmen who remember and madmen who forget. Heroes are rare."

  4. lebogang nkoane

    dualism --- that is not good --- everywhere I go, one has to choose, this or the other --- I stick by my words: choice is not empowering, you are left with, at most, only one --- never both.

    *sorry to take it a bit off topic (end of digression)

    So, Ru why do you do it? Photography? Do you agree with NguJaz that moments don't last?

    I remember a reading somewhere, when I was was learning Buddhism, the was a narrative that went something like this (extremely paraphrased): "if you look at a picture/photograph of yourself, you must remember that 'figure' in the photograph, is no longer you, it represent what you were a few seconds, minutes, days, years ago" --- Not sure, what it meant, actually I do, but can't put it to words, yet --- but I do agree with it.

    (avoiding a conclusion, I'm going to get coffee and let the thought marinate for a bit).

  5. rudzani

    Juxtapose, I like that quotation! I am suspicious this may just be true with the exception of one thing: it is not the Hero who both remembers and forgets, it is his nemesis, the Antihero who can not lose anything because there is nothing left he can lose which he has not already given up willingly:-) (Remember Bilbo Baggins of the Shire of Tolkin's Middle earth?).

    What is the author's name?

  6. rudzani

    Sorry lebogang, we seem to have posted in the same time, so I only saw your comment this morning. Of course Jaz is right, moments do not last. By definition they can not, unless we were caught in a perpetual cycle of the same - a permanent de javu so to say. But this is not why I take photographs. For memory I prefer words: I memorise poems, prose, I stopped memorising chapters, but still do snippets of speeches, etc:-)

    I take photographs because some things are beautiful! Often what is beautiful is usually missed when one trys to take everything in at the same time. Taking slices off makes it possible to see it. (Oliver, according to Tutu, there is only one way to eat an elephant, one peace at a time).

    Why does beauty matter so much? The question has already been answered by Dostoevsky, " The world shall be saved through beauty."

  7. NguJaz

    this is a beautifully captured moment Ru
    what you do is represent no? Present again, what we see/experience in the world.
    That representation should in a sense: take us back to that moment; at least in theory.

  8. Juxtapose

    "choice is not empowering, you are left with, at most, only one --- never both."

    the polygamist's mantra

  9. noidSyStems

    In Depth!

  10. Khumbelo

    !

  11. Sukum'ukhanye

    You guys are deep!!! everything is a stuggle wethu...

  12. Makhosini Motha

    !

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