A pocket-sized book that reflects on my transient early 20s, moving from apartment to apartment.
This book aims to capture my memories of my first apartment in Oslo, as well as the process of remembering itself and the associative feeling of jumping or floating from one memory to another.
Memory Palace, 107m² is a 'flipped' book with semi-transparent pages lead the reader through an narrative that begins at the end with the aftermath of a lost friendship and works backwards towards the sunny optimism of arriving in a new country: "Me and her and my two large suitcases."
The initial and fundamental idea for this book began with a floor plan drawn from memory, so text describing memories could be placed onto the rooms that they occurred within. Tracing paper pages mean that the floor plan is visible behind the earliest memories. Sketchbook drawings and analog photographs from the time are placed on the right-hand side, as well as text describing memories that occurred outside of the apartment. I chose to create a book that starts at the end; the book's cover opens from the right-hand side and opens with an epilogue. I think that this approach is reflective of the feeling of remembering: that all memories are coloured by our feelings about what has happened since. Working backwards towards the day I moved in, the tracing paper allows you to get fleeting hints of memories about to come into focus, which fade away until the reader is met with an empty and stark floor plan.