All Who Wander May Truly Be Lost
The process of curation is often seen as a process involving the molding and forming of a work of art, the dynamic behind curation is usually looked at backwards in the sense that the process is building something up rather than what it truly is which is tearing something down. Curation into beauty consists of shaping something by taking things away, and in The Lost Wax by Jericho Parms, the author shows this central theme throughout the book that a person is made and formed by the losses in their life. This theme is accentuated by stories in Parms’ life that implore love and loss, but these stories that on the surface may seem miscellaneous, at the same time they all point back to a metaphorical idea of curation. …show more content…
Later in the same paragraph she also states that “some things we only know by observing: sequential images, dominant traits, language used to classify shape and mold” (7) and in the back of that quote she uses words like shape and mold to point back to the theme introduced by the title of the collection. The central theme of curation by loss is pointed out here in what we see and how we remember it; this is also backed up by the traits that she inherits from her grandfather like “Piano fingers” (7) which not stated there could point back to a memory of playing piano with her grandfather or rather observing her grandfather playing the piano. Parms does a great job of challenging the reader to think along the lines of how she thinks life works, but by using her theme in the book she manages to support these ideas in how she phrases her ideas with imagery. Specifically, to use the example of piano fingers, that challenge the reader to think deeper into what she is saying, by simply describing an inherited trait she also manages to hint back towards a possible memory that was important in her …show more content…
All culminating to how these things shape people into who they are truly meant to be; this idea is consistently presented throughout the collection of essays not set in stone but in how a mood and central idea is formed as she shares these memories and how they affected her. Another key thing is the memory of these events looking back at them and the true sense of vulnerability during empowerment to truly reveal how these memories of love, loss, and life molded her into who she was. Curation is a beautiful process that is, at times, difficult but the true beauty and empowerment is found in the Lost
The process of curation is often seen as a process involving the molding and forming of a work of art, the dynamic behind curation is usually looked at backwards in the sense that the process is building something up rather than what it truly is which is tearing something down. Curation into beauty consists of shaping something by taking things away, and in The Lost Wax by Jericho Parms, the author shows this central theme throughout the book that a person is made and formed by the losses in their life. This theme is accentuated by stories in Parms’ life that implore love and loss, but these stories that on the surface may seem miscellaneous, at the same time they all point back to a metaphorical idea of curation. …show more content…
Later in the same paragraph she also states that “some things we only know by observing: sequential images, dominant traits, language used to classify shape and mold” (7) and in the back of that quote she uses words like shape and mold to point back to the theme introduced by the title of the collection. The central theme of curation by loss is pointed out here in what we see and how we remember it; this is also backed up by the traits that she inherits from her grandfather like “Piano fingers” (7) which not stated there could point back to a memory of playing piano with her grandfather or rather observing her grandfather playing the piano. Parms does a great job of challenging the reader to think along the lines of how she thinks life works, but by using her theme in the book she manages to support these ideas in how she phrases her ideas with imagery. Specifically, to use the example of piano fingers, that challenge the reader to think deeper into what she is saying, by simply describing an inherited trait she also manages to hint back towards a possible memory that was important in her …show more content…
All culminating to how these things shape people into who they are truly meant to be; this idea is consistently presented throughout the collection of essays not set in stone but in how a mood and central idea is formed as she shares these memories and how they affected her. Another key thing is the memory of these events looking back at them and the true sense of vulnerability during empowerment to truly reveal how these memories of love, loss, and life molded her into who she was. Curation is a beautiful process that is, at times, difficult but the true beauty and empowerment is found in the Lost