Woods: I think of this song by Guy Clark called "My Favorite Picture of You," that is like the auditory equivalent of someone pulling pictures out of a.When you used to get your pictures back from the developer and like that f**king envelope. I just don't remember these things, and they were only like eight years ago.īaltin: There's a Jackson Browne song, "Fountain of Sorrow," which starts, "Looking through some photographs that I found inside a drawer, I was taken by a photograph of you." What is it about photos that are so artistically inspiring? As you get older, as you move into your 30s, there are pictures of me in my '20s that I don't remember being taken, which isn't really an experience that you have until a certain level of your life. So I think there is something very special about finding a picture.
You remember a lot of things that you think you remember from your childhood, but what you're doing is just recalling pictures and then filling in details. Basically all the research about memory that happens is really only teaching us that we're terrible at it. I'm interested like everybody in just like the lie of memory, I'm really interested in what you construct in your head to tell yourself a narrative that reinforces your view of yourself and how that affects your memory and what your memory really is like. Did you find that to be the case for you? Baltin: I think a lot of people during the pandemic found themselves getting more nostalgic because they had time to slow down and look back.
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