We Were Here

We Were Here is a photo-art collection that explores the attachment of memories and art to places, and how utterly determining some chosen moments and narratives can appear to be to ourselves and others.

A self-guided tour where one revisits certain places with attached memories (happy or otherwise) can be therapeutic both in relationship to oneself and others.

The tour can be utilized as a ritual or ceremonial act to honor, release or reconnect to that which was. Especially if the revisits are done in the specific order as the moments occurred and within the time frame one wishes or needs to revisit.

A tour done in this manner allows one to process the thoughts, emotions, and situations that once arose in those places. Especially if one is fully present and open to receive the “flashbacks” (What I would call a re-enacted or environmentally induced “Deja Vú”).

Giving the moments a short summarization, title, or even melody can furthermore assist the process and, in a best-case scenario, allows one to come to necessary peace, joy, love, or grief with that which one needed to.