THEATRE OF AMNESIA (1987 – 1991) A three-and-a-half year project to concoct the inverse of a classical Memory Theatre. Memory theatres were devices (originating before the invention of the printing press) to aid artificial memory. This device, or devices — there were three of them — served as an aid to an artificial amnesia, specifically for “forgetting the name of the thing one sees”*. The goal was to produce the same involuntary sense of déjà vu offered by blackout drawing, but in the presence of actual things rather than the merely visual illusion of photographs. A slightly mad endeavour that had deeply salutary effects on its author. * Paul Valéry