A Photograph of My(self)

Photograph- Ria C.

Photographs are re-presentations of Memory. They have our past memorized without any alterations.  Photographs are illusion that brings stasis to the concept of Time. It must have happened with many of you or all of you that an old photograph takes you back in time, even if it is for one tiny moment your Present becomes non-existent and you are present in your Past. It happens with me all the time. Well, Memories are the same at times but if there is a photograph, you have a catalyst in the process of remembering and re-living. 

Although, there are photographs like this one, where I see myself , I go back to my past Self even if it isn't a photograph of me. This one here, holds an essence of my Past Self, an essence of my memory in spite of not being my own memory.

The kids in the picture are building a mountain with clay and stick, which happens to be an old tradition during Kali Puja. I took this picture a while back and it transported me to the memories of the time when I was making such a mountain. The time that is now just a memory, the companions I had are a memory. 

This photograph has captured my memory outside my Self. 

A little illusion my Self be-ing outside myself.