"Memory: Return"
Ann Hirsch

Gifted by
The Newington-Cropsey Foundation

THE GARDEN OF GREAT IDEAS

"Memory" is the description of two moments in one woman's life represented by two figures as well as a description of the act of remembering. The older woman is remembering while she is simultaneously an image of her own memory. The child also represents the memory of the older woman. "Memory: Return" is intended to inspire views to think of memory in terms of birth and death and old age and the summation of all memories at the closing of the circle of our lifetimes in returning to the beginning at death.