No image satisfies her
Imperial (2010), by Holly Bynoe; digital collage, 40 x 60 inches Holly Bynoe is a visual artist and editor-in-chief of ARC Magazine . A portfolio of her amazing work is published this month at the Caribbean Review of Books . As noted by Melanie Archer, Bynoe, in writing about her work, refers to Walter Benjamin's idea of the "fan of memory": He who has once begun to open the fan of memory never comes to the end of its segments; no image satisfies him, for he has seen that it can be unfolded, and only in its folds does the truth reside; that image, that taste, that touch for whose sake all has been unfurled and dissected; and now remembrance advances from small to smallest details, from the smallest to the infinitesimal, while that which it encounters in these microcosms grows ever mightier. >>>SEE & READ MORE here .