— carto · i / forgetting

a map of forgetting

contours · interior · scale: an afternoon to the inch

where the name was circumference of nearly edges of perhaps a small lost summer someone's voice north — last week east — the dream south — childhood west — yesterday one afternoon
contour · degree of loss meander · the half-remembered centre · the thing itself, missing secondary basin · adjacent omission

the contours tighten where the loss is steepest. at the centre, no elevation, only a marker where a name used to be. the rings outside it are not distances but degrees: the further out, the more of the thing is still in reach.

i drew this map from memory, which is the only way to draw a map of forgetting and also the reason it is wrong. the meander runs from the south of childhood to the east of the dream and seems to want to connect them; in fact it dries out around lacuna and the rest is inference.

the surveyors of forget use no instruments. they return without notes, draw what they can, sign nothing.

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