AFTER MEANING

AFTER MEANING by Gianluca CeccariniSomewhere when dreams and reality, the past and the present meet, when digging the surface is useless because the surface is infinite and perhaps reinterpreting is the only possible way

AFTER MEANING by Gianluca Ceccarini

There is an inseparable link between perception, motivation and memory. Memory is not never a mere individual record of the past, but an integration between past and present, between individual and community. According to Bartlett 's vision in the analysis of the mnemonic process it does not matter to highlight precision, understood as the more or less faithful copy of the past, but the adaptive purpose of the mental processes considered in a given context. Memory is part integral to the flow of perception and imaginative thought, it welds the aspect cognitive to motivational and emotional. An interpretative approach that focuses on the phenomenon of "false" memories, distortions and oblivion.

We should think of these memories not so much as fakes but as "fictions", as Clifford Geertz intended ethnographic descriptions in their relationship with reality, that is, something built, modeled through strategies representative to which the classic true / false dichotomy is difficult to apply.

"After meaning" is my ongoing autobiographical, fragmented and imaginative photo diary inspired by the interpretative theories about the memory of Bartlett, according to which memory is a constant "effort after meaning". Not an ability to store past data but a process of reconstruction that, start from interests and knowledge of the present, trying to reconstruct the meaning of memory.

Somewhere when dreams and reality, the past and the present meet, when digging the surface is useless because the surface is infinite and perhaps reinterpreting is the only possible way.

“Solo dopo aver conosciuto la superficie delle cose ci si può spingere a cercare quel che c’è sotto. Ma la superficie delle cose è inesauribile.» (Palomar, I. Calvino)