ABSTRACT
Every memory has a mother hidden within its folds, and it is this state of
being hidden that characterises the nature of forgetting and loss. The
‘unremembered maternal’ as a precondition for representation in art, as a
form of unacknowledged work in urban space, and as the suburban ‘other’ of
urban memory, is the subject of this chapter. It is an explanation of what it
means to forget, and how it feels to be forgotten. To explain is, etymologically
speaking, to unfold (ex planere). I have, in this chapter, explained the obvious, and yet the surface of this text, in its process of explaining and unfolding,
remains concealed, hidden and inexplicit.
