Behind Door #1
In the old game show âLetâs Make A Dealâ Monty Hall invited guests to pick a door, #1, #2, or #3. As a child this was fascinating: what was behind Door #1? Was it fact or illusion? Our choices in life are more complex. We often donât have the opportunity to pick between just three equal possibilities, and then to find the only consequence that our choice did not lead to a big prize. Our choices are driven by what we understand to be facts, not illusions, Unfortunately, that is not always the case.
Perhaps our realities and illusions are like our memories. We donât always know exactly what happened, what that person said, or the motivation behind a particular act. More often than not, it is our memory or our perception that tricks us. Does this mean our memory is a combination of facts and illusions?
The author Eudora Welty believed memory was a living thingâ"it too is in transit. But during its moment, all that is remembered joins, and livesâthe old and the young, the past and the present, the living and the dead.â How does that influence the choices we make? And why do we almost never pick Door #1?
Mixed media on deep wood panel.
Perhaps our realities and illusions are like our memories. We donât always know exactly what happened, what that person said, or the motivation behind a particular act. More often than not, it is our memory or our perception that tricks us. Does this mean our memory is a combination of facts and illusions?
The author Eudora Welty believed memory was a living thingâ"it too is in transit. But during its moment, all that is remembered joins, and livesâthe old and the young, the past and the present, the living and the dead.â How does that influence the choices we make? And why do we almost never pick Door #1?
Mixed media on deep wood panel.