Memory Box quite literally opens the door to memory, how it is built up and destroyed over time, how we can manipulate it to suit our needs, whether to learn lessons or defiance.
Objects from Johnson’s Memory Box which have been collected over the course of a lifetime, are photographed on medium format film, which is then destroyed by fire, water, or otherwise manipulating the film, and then printed (in the darkroom) as the final image.
Other ephemera and writings from the Memory Box are taken away, ripped apart, sewn back together, and presented in a context reminiscent of their original intentions, such as middle school notes stuffed in a locker.
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