Reviewed by David Roberts Pick up an old photo album. Perhaps after a loved one has died or after a child has finished higher education and finally moves out of the house. Maybe it is dusty or faded. Before opening it, touch it, feel it, smell it, look carefully at it. When you can be alone and convince yourself not to answer the telephone or respond to the pager, open the album and begin to look and the pictures, all of them.
Memory is a tricky thing.
The oddest things trigger memory. Some visual stimulus, maybe a small white feather found in a familiar or treasured book. Maybe a passage from that book or its feel or even its smell. Rae Smith's set is a pure delight to experience. Some memories can be controlled, some return to Joseph again and again and are uncontrollable in their persistence and in their power.