Reel or Real

No bank of 'real reels' available 

Connection to the past ~

a journey in and of itself

‘memorybank movies’ ~ described by Margaret Laurence in the Diviners ~

Reels that may or may not be real are 

coloured by emotions, sensations or even ages of 2 feet tall when short and tall giants are all around always remaining real until edges fray and images fade with time and exposure to the elements. 

Real photographs, white rippled edges surrounding black and white images of years before colour and clarity, pick up some thready reminder ~ the cold damp feel of grass, the soft touch of grandfather’s roughened hand, the pungent smell of newly turned soil………..like beads of water clinging to windows after a rain ~

these connections, tenuous at best, threaten to fade when 

wiped away by someone else’s ‘memorybank movies’,

vanish into black holes from illness or fear ~ ‘Access Denied’

yet most remain real with the colour and clarity of heart and soul.

“There is one thing that the photograph must contain, 

the humanity of the moment.”

~ Robert Frank