Curiosity cabinets are usually thought of as antique oddities from another age. But isn’t the internet a bit like a curiosity cabinet? If so, is that a good ...

This from a nineteenth century undertaker’s advertisement recalling ‘wunderkammer’ or cabinets of curiosities. These were collections of bizarre objects meant to instil wonder ab…

A ‘wunderkammer’ is a ‘cabinet of curiosities’ or rather a room in which precious objects are amassed. These rooms are a product of man’s inherent desire to store memories and take possession of all he sees around him.

A Parisian Cabinet of Curosities - Deyrolle, photo Francis Hammond

The Memory Palace is my primary way of documenting walks. Based on an ancient Greek technique that uses the strength of human spatial memory to record and retrieve memories, memory palaces are not simply a recording of memory, they are an embodiment. One remembers through visualizing a walk in space, and depositing symbolic renderings of memories…

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