Art of Memories
Art of Memories | Rod Jones Artist

Art of Memories

Art of Memories: Recollections are stored things that inevitably bring on wanderings; triggering random thoughts, that are both productive and unproductive. No matter how you live inside your mind, the opportunity to explore memories is perhaps one of the most creative gifts we collectively share. Feelings of nostalgia and cherished memories have motivated many a songwriter to set words and music to rhythmic compositions, that more often than not tug on our hearts.

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Every art form has evolved from the brain's capacity in retaining millions of memories. Even the physical actions in dance or athletic performances are based on the body's capacity for building memories through rehearsals.

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Spontaneity may be nothing more than the brain's ability to harvest and draw upon deep-rooted memories. To be creative, it is said that you need to embrace the exploration of imaginative thoughts. I know it sounds like all artistic achievements lay within a bed of memories; just laying around waiting to be awakened, perhaps this may be the case.

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Careworn hands and eyes. Look at the hands of a mother or grandmother. Maybe look at an older gentleman, that spent his life making things with his hands or he tilled the soil growing crops in the field. Those hands are in aggregate of memories. Just by looking carefully at their hands, you will start the process of building memories of your own. Remembering your mother or father's tender touch when you were wounded emotionally by some bratty kid... especially the half witted ones that thought you were ugly. Your teared up eyes looked into your mom or dad's sympathetic eyes, there you could see a whole bunch of love and care. “Ah...yes.” If you read this last paragraph you understandably traveled through a whole bunch of memories.

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