I've recently become entranced by the disappearing act: the move from everything to nothing with a stifling sadness in between. Yes, this newfound interest was generated by my beginning-of-the-semester, overly eager intellectual self which likes to translate everything from her classes into big-picture, life-changing revelations. I have a new pair of personality prescription glasses which allow me to see and to feel like someone who uses lectures as lifeblood and PowerPoints as scripture. In my history of photography class, I can already imagine studying the real-as-life visage of an old man next to an old dog leaning against a decrepit wall in the country. I can close my eyes and trace the timeline from the daguerreotype to the disposable to photofiddle.com. I see before me a whole semester of trying to recapture the elusive past, or as my professor would say, the elusive image.
What exactly is this elusive image, this move from present to future, this disappearing I seem to have suddenly become the visceral witness to?
One anecdote in particular, the same one that the overly eager Mary Scott shared in another of her classes, conjures up this feeling of everything slipping away.
I'm in an interdisciplinary class in which we will be discussing novels and theoretical pieces which deal with space and place through narrative. Before delving into these lengthy novels and dense ideas, we all shared what connected us to the idea of space or place by telling mini narratives of our own. As the first storyteller, I panicked and relayed what was one of my more whimsical tales, a story about the disappearing island - and the nostalgia surrounding such a disappearance
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