Reminder

The push to this entry was MentalPhotography and his journal, which you can view here aegisavantgarde.deviantart.com…

So yeah, this post made me want to summarize my thoughts on this.. thing I experience. I call it a reminder. It’s like you hear/see one and the same thing all over again and you think it’s a piece of useless information, but than something happens and you use it.. I’m not sure I actually make sense. It’ll be easier to explain it with an example, one of the many.

I once saw a Mark Rothko picture at an exhibition, I think it was Orange and Yellow. And I thought to myself why would anyone buy it, it’s silly. Some time after that I saw this movie with Uma Thurman where her heroine fells in love with an artist, who is a lot younger than she is, and is actually a son of her therapist. I think the title was Prime, but it doesn’t matter really. So I liked Uma’s character up until she said she liked Rothko.
The next reminder of Rothko was when I found a 20th Century Art book while organizing my books. I never noticed, but there is a Rothko picture on the cover.
This is basically it. I don’t know, maybe it’s how the natural process of learning works, but it feels weird every time. Such random things often helped me. Like I accidentally read a German word I didn’t know (German is not my mother tongue) and looked it up, and than two hours later I heard it in a conversation and actually knew what it meant. This sounds like the most basic thing ever, but it doesn’t feel like it. Sometimes this reminder thing goes wrong and I have month-long periods when things come up after I needed them, which is frustrating. I guess I sound paranoid, but please comment if you can relate to this in any way or know a book on a similar subject I need to read.

P.S. Marcel Proust was another reminder. You mentioned him in your message. I was reading Arc de Triomphe in the morning and Ravic was talking of Proust.. And in Little Miss Sunshine Frank was a Proust scholar.
Something tells I’m going to be reading Proust next.