Drawing From Memory

Kate Kalafatis

@katelena.kal

"Drawing From Memory" is a two part book project. Book One contains interviews about individual's childhoods, which take place in varying locations and time periods. Book Two then draws from these interviews and includes creative prompts and activities inspired by the interviewees' childhood experiences. In his Manifesto of 1863 entitled, "The Painter of Modern Life," Charles Baudelaire asserts that, "genius is nothing more nor less than childhood recovered at will" (8). As we age, we become restrained by what's practical or sensical, and this greatly hinders our creativity. By hearing tales of childhood and doodling mindlessly, perhaps it's possible to regain that limitless imagination that children possess.