When I was a kid, I got a wrist watch as a gift from someone. I liked it so much that, since then, I always wore it, without taking it off. At some point, the button for setting the alarm got broken; I couldn’t turn it off, so it rang every day, on the same time. In the beginning I got annoyed, but I still didn’t take it off my wrist, and then after some time, I used this constant daily reminder as a positive aspect of my life. Every time the alarm rang, I started writing down what I was doing at that exact moment; I was describing the environment around me in an artistic manner, writing everything down in a diary of mine. After a year, the diary was full… The watch was completely broken and finally, I had to throw it off. These daily writings of mine remained and it wonderfully describes that concrete period of my life. A lot of time passed since then, I didn’t even remember that story before something similar happened with my cell phone. The system got messed up and the alarm was ringing at random times. Again, I used this issue for a positive cause, instead of writing in a diary where I was and what I was doing at that exact moment right when the alarm rang; I started to take photos with that phone. I gave myself permission to use couple of meters ahead or behind, couple of extra minutes and the possibility to change the angle of the photo. After 15 times of random alarm bursts, this problem was solved… That’s how I ended up with 15 photo entries, which I called 15 flashbacks or “15 Involuntary Recurrent Memory”.

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