Illustrated essays · Forthcoming September 2026
Tropes of Memory
Memory as Image
Memory is not a record but an image. Tropes of Memory reads remembrance through art and object — keepsakes and reminiscences, hauntings and palimpsests, the violet hour and the vanishings — mapping the recurring figures by which we hold, and lose, the past.
Contents
- Introduction
- Keepsakes
- Recollections
- Reminiscences
- Déjà Vus
- Racing Memories
- Memory Slips
- Lapses
- Ombres
- Persistences
- Haunting Memories
- Time Passing
- Violet Hours
- The Suspension of Time
- Éphémères
- The Vanishings
- Absences
- Memento Mori
- Palimpsests
- Unforgettable
- Immémoriaux
- Oblivion
- Silence
- Nothingness