My performance lecture has been heavily influenced by the writings of Albert Camus and Friedrich Nietzsche. But I had added quite a absurd twist in the ritualistic Goldfish bowl aspect and wanted to know why.
I was walking from University to Homebase to get some ‘none damage’ hanging strips, I was half way through preparing my studio space ready for marking displaying what I deemed to be my most successful work. I came across a common sight on public car parks especially those that are attached to retail parks.
I took a picture mainly because everyone had parked around this ‘doughnut’. It wasn’t until later that I met up with Emma that we then visited Homebase together, my third time in a matter of an hour or two but don’t ask. I showed Emma the picture and showed her the actual ‘doughnut’. I asked why do think that people make these sort of marks or why do people make circles. To which Emma replied ‘it might originate from the egg on a circular cell level , when the egg becomes fertilised from this early involvement, might be the core to why people feel the urge to make circles, whether that is whilst drifting in a car or in a painting. The marking of the circle could well be from as early as this stage, to why people make circles. Maybe it’s something embedded in people.’ I found this interesting. It really did get me thinking. People on a cellular level are very intuitive and things happen at this level that we do not quite understand. For instance an organ transplant carries a side effect, it can actually change a person, I’m not just on about the experience I’m talking on a cellular level and nobody is sure why, Lizette Borreli from the medical daily talks about cellular memories. ‘The cell memory phenomenon, while still not considered 100 percent scientifically-validated, is still supported by several scientists and physicians. The behaviors and emotions acquired by the recipient from the original donor are due to the combinatorial memories stored in the neurons of the organ donated.’
I know that Lizette is speaking in the terms of person to person memory, but, surly if someone is able to carry memories in their cells then obviously we carry memories from the womb?
ah, but, you would say that the cells that live in our bodies now are not the one you were born with?
The cells in our body reproduce through a term known as mitosis and meiosis, and though I will not bore you to much but cells replicate, one of the reasons we get cancer, I will not go into that though. Basically we have bodies full of clones, like Dolly the sheep.
so all in all I think Emma Starkey is on to something there.
