Todays guestblogger is Lars Vilks, a controversial artist that is best known for the drift wood build Nimis in Kullaberg in Skåne and to some extent for being threatened by terrorists. He has lectured in art theory in Norway, and is also a writer, blogger, soccer player, and YouTuber.

How much will you be able to remember of a year, years from now? Out of every year 547 500 minutes most is lost, years and months get mixed together. It’s safe to assume that most people don’t remember what they did in February three years ago. A project to hold on to a certain space of time could change that.

Remembering every day for a week. To be able to summon a mental image of a day requires doing something that day that gets etched in. You could use drastic measures. If you one night, dressed in your PJs, ran around town for half an hour, then forgetting that day would be probably pretty unlikely, and getting arrested for lude behavior almost equally so. A more esthetically pleasing method is using the small measures possible to maintain a mental image of a day.

You should start on a Monday and then through all seven days thoroughly ending on Sunday. “Thoroughly” is essential because you have to be convincing to your own mind. It’s all too easy to think “’I’ll remember that” and then doing no such thing relatively soon. Physical activity is an essential reinforcement. Any movement, all words and song, strong audio or visual effects show the physical dimension of a memory.

Seven days might not seem much but when a few years have passed it’ll become clear that you’ve managed to keep a part of your own ever-disappearing history.

Simple projects can be easily remembered but if you do them more than once, then telling the days apart becomes difficult. If you pull this off you could try doing it again for a whole month. And if that works, the great challenge: A whole year. Taking notes is allowed.

Memory project 1: Two garden chairs with pins on them (For example Tuesday’s project: Day 2)

Memory project 2: Ceramic horse on a well. Horse-on-well, which sounds like Orson Welles who was incidentally buried in a well.