Superlatively Awake (series of drawings): The piece is inspired by the diary of Clive Wearing, the English Musicologist who suffered from amnesia so severe that he could remember nothing for more than 30 seconds. He kept a diary consisting of nothing but variations on the same phrase, repeated and crossed out endlessly. Despite this handicap, he could still play piano and conduct music, retaining the implicit memory that he had built up over a lifetime even if he no longer had any explicit memory. Likewise, the drawings in Superlatively Awake slowly build up an implicit figuration of a half-remembered figure, obscured by the endless repetition but not diminished. Part of the research conducted at the Tetley with Leeds University in 2019 on language and memory
