My First Reaction Paper

I found myself very confused while I was reading this article. It took me a few reading and some thinking to understand what she was meaning. To me it felt like she was jumping from one point to another, which is probably what made it so confusing in the first place. She made some very interesting points on how our minds bring back memories from the past. While doing things that had nothing to do with what we are doing. Like for example seeing pictures, hearing things, or even doing tasks can trigger our minds. I think that she is also trying to say that pictures are important part of your life because they help us remember things from our past that we may have forgotten. Weather they were good memories or bad memories. But, when you think about it, it is like having a photo album or a scrapbook in your head. That you can go back when ever you want and look at.

The picture that stood out the most to me would have to be the picture called “Gate” by Zeke Berman (Picture seen below). I think that the reason that this picture stood out so much to me because it reminds me of the time that me and my friends had a silly string fight in our backyard and got silly string all over everything. Also, because it looks kind of like a web all of our memories. All of the strings represent all the memories from our past that we remember and things that we have done that link to other memories. And all the gaps between the strings represent all the memories that we have forgotten. Which in the end all of the memories we have and the memories we have forgotten, are what form this web looking figure. No matter if their were good or bad memories.