When Senoo Kappa was working on his Indian Sketch book in India, he once asked many locals to describe Mahatma Gandhi in their minds, to his surprise the majority described Gandhi as someone tall and big, and it was to their surprise when Kappa showed them the photo of the short and skinny brown man.

Somehow we all tend of summarize people and image them to have a physical appearance corresponds with the characterized résumé, just like that we are all opt to keep selective memories about our own experiences. As Walter Benjamin said, memory is not an instrument for exploring the past but its theater. It is the medium of past experience as the ground is the medium in which dead cities lie interred. He who seeks to approach his own buried past must conduct himself like a man digging.

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