Future anterior
Here’s another neologism for you — premem — similar to my previous new word, and also triggered by one of my children. It means “pre-memory”, and while sounding like something out of a Philip K. Dick story, my meaning refers to a more intimate epiphany, one of those “golden moments” when you can already visualize, at the moment it occurs, the image as a memory in the future.
I think this photo captures the spirit of a premem, playing as it does on mimicking old technology (pinhole photography) and the kind of future memory I can imagine having of my child, overcoming fear through determination and pleasure-seeking.
November 3rd, 2007 at 11:29 am
Very nice photo and great processing!
November 6th, 2007 at 5:27 am
Photo itself looks like a premem - more than just the spirit of it. Love the idea/picture anyway if not the word itself which is ugly. Can’t someone come up with a better one?
November 6th, 2007 at 5:28 am
On the other hand….as a neologism it does nicely…
November 7th, 2007 at 12:47 am
Really good work on this image…well done…