Nostalgia, from the Greek: nostos, the return home, and algos, pain. I even miss the arguing. Every language seems to need its own word for this. The Portuguese have Saudade. In Galicia, Morriña. English makes do with longing, or homesickness. What they are all circling is a deep melancholy for something that is not here. Painting, photography, graffiti, music: every form human expression takes, gathered in one place and saying the same thing. Memory is the one subject that moves the world, and here it is something you can touch, paint, hear and breathe.
Murakami already wrote it in Kafka on the shore - "If you remember me, then I don't care if everybody else forgets."
Nostalgia, from the Greek: nostos, the return home, and algos, pain. I even miss the arguing. Every language seems to need its own word for this. The Portuguese have Saudade. In Galicia, Morriña. English makes do with longing, or homesickness. What they are all circling is a deep melancholy for something that is not here. Painting, photography, graffiti, music: every form human expression takes, gathered in one place and saying the same thing. Memory is the one subject that moves the world, and here it is something you can touch, paint, hear and breathe.
Murakami already wrote it in Kafka on the shore - "If you remember me, then I don't care if everybody else forgets."
