「記憶のRAWデータ — From Thumbnail to Motion」
Recently I noticed something about how my memory works. My memory seems to be structured like a RAW file with an attached thumbnail. It first appears as an image, then unfolds into a still, and when needed, becomes something I can edit like footage. I did not build this order intentionally; I only noticed it afterward. The reason is probably the long years spent managing photographs on a computer. The speed at which a Mac lets you browse a hundred thousand frames in a few minutes seems to have shaped the form my memory takes. The way a browser first lays out low-resolution thumbnails and only opens the full file when needed resembles how my memory works: fragments appear first as thumbnails, and only what is needed unfolds into a still, and sometimes into something closer to motion. Years of that kind of work may have quietly shaped the structure of perception before any theory was formed. Looking back, the photographic theory I am working on now may simply be a later attempt to ...
