long term memory, art history

I found it.

The pic­ture whose name I couldn’t remember. 

John Sin­gle­ton Cop­ley, Wat­son and the Shark.

I knew the name once. Had to mem­o­rize it for an art com­pe­ti­tion. Our team lost be­cause I didn’t know how to spell.

That’s what hap­pens when you let the dyslex­ic kid on the team. We had in­dex cards to prac­tice iden­ti­fy­ing the pieces of art.
 

John Sin­gle­ton Cop­ley, Wat­son and the Shark, oil on can­vas, 1778
 
I was al­ways very luck­i­ly to be ex­posed to so much art when I was younger.

It was one of those pic­tures I would re­mem­ber that I had for­got­ten the name and I would try des­per­ate­ly to grasp at the name only to for­get it.

Every time I’d ask my mom where she kept those in­dex cards and every time she’d give me a dif­fer­ent an­swer. Nev­er a straight answer.

I wasn’t look­ing for it, just hap­pened across it while look­ing for an­oth­er artist and paint­ing I once mem­o­rized and forgotten.
 

I need to see the ocean.

I need to or­ga­nize my thoughts.

I need to know why my mom thought that send­ing me an email at 12:00 am telling me my grand­ma had can­cer and then not pick up the phone was a good idea.
 

—car­olyn self

Flom­mist Car­olyn Self is a bag of words that some­times shakes out into co­her­ent sen­tences. Copy­right © 2016 Car­olyn Self. Pic­tured: The sec­ond of three edi­tions of Wat­son and the Shark; orig­i­nal here.

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