Synesthetic Memory

Rediscovering Adolescence

 

Allow yourself to be drawn back down memory’s twisting trails and pathways. Back to a time when your mind was always creating, unfettered by the multitude of stresses that afflict you today. Your conscious mind was as open to the pure imagination that today you only can find fleetingly through dream.

Using waterproof ink and water, I wanted to capture the power of random creation that comes from uninhibited action. Much the same as your dreams were not always limited to the creations of your subconscious in slumber, there are no bounds placed the on the ink when introduced to the water. Once brought together, their combination twists and swells in ways more infinite and beautiful than intentional action could have shaped them.

With each of these pieces, I drew upon experiences from my own childhood to serve as the inspiration for the visual palate selected. From here, the original inspiration and idea was allowed to spread freely, undulating an evolving into a visualization all its own.

 

Joshua Calderon is a senior at Eastern Mennonite University and is studying History/Pre-law.