Poster board on my wall with 60 photos

After several years working on this memoir, I had the revelation that I needed to make much better use of my 300-some photos from Gabon. Usually they reside buried away in dark, closed photo albums sitting on dusty bookshelves.

Well, I followed the insight obtained from watching one too many CSI detective shows where the first step the cops take in investigating a homicide is to display all of the photos in front of them on the wall. The idea being that VISUAL evidence (photos, drawings) needs to be visually displayed so that the cops can SEE that evidence to make logical and intuitive connections between victims, suspects, locales, weapons, dates, etc. I’m sure visual evidence has a way of triggering human analytical insight.

Well, I chose 60 of my best and most evocative photos from Gabon, and I have displayed them on a large poster board on the wall. Now, I can walk by and look at the wall and SEE and REMEMBER the sights and memories of Gabon… My mere memories, tucked away in my dark brain cavity, are now buttressed by visual evidence, on-the-wall, of my life in Africa 38 years ago.