Today I handed in both my creative project and research-based exegesis for my Honours year. It’s been one hell of a year, and now it’s over. What have I been doing, you may ask? (Other than locking myself out of Tumblr with a friend’s assistance)
Well, I was looking to tell the story of my mother’s death when I was 8, and the interesting memory process of remembering someone who is no longer there - an absent presence. I decided to tell this story via the genre/medium/tool of electronic literature. The result is in the pictures above.
The Resilience of Echoes is the proof of my year, and the start of me figuring out my identity, my mother, my memory of her vs. who she really was, my life after she died, all of it. I feel so incredibly protective of it, because its not as comprehensive or as articulate or as pretty* or as orderly or as smoothly functioning as it could be. But it is what it should be. And it’s what I have to show.
Currently Resilience exists as an executable Flash file, which can be downloaded here. It works on all browsers (as far as I know), just drag it to an empty tab.
I hope people “read” it. I hope they like it, or at least respond to it. I hope to hear from those that do. I hope one day soon to put it on a proper site of its own. I hope to keep furnishing the rooms in the work with my writing and my ideas.
But for now, I’m just gonna get back on Tumblr, see how many pages of my dash I can get through before I feel like passing out, listen to a bunch of Robyn, eat a pan of brownies, then go out with my friends tonight. Hello, again.
