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Introduced to Orson Welles鈥� iconic film, Citizen Kane, as a student at the National College of Art and Design in the 1980鈥檚, artist Darina Meagher now revisits the film to explore the concept of 鈥榬adioactive memory鈥�.  Citizen Kane opens with Kane on his deathbed murmuring his last word 鈥淩osebud鈥�. Throughout the film, 鈥淩osebud鈥� is the enigma which the narrator seeks to solve. It is described as a radioactive memory by Peter Bradshaw, in the Guardian Newspaper. According to Bradshaw:

Rosebud is more probably Welles鈥檚 intuition of the illusory flashback effect of memory that will affect all of us, particularly at the very end of our lives: the awful conviction that childhood memories are better, simpler, more real than adult memories 鈥� that childhood memories are the only things which are real. The remembered details of early existence 鈥� moments, sensations and images 鈥� have an arbitrary poetic authenticity which is a by- product of being detached from the prosaic context and perspective which encumbers adult minds, the rational understanding which would rob them of their mysterious force. (25 April 2015)

Through a call-out, Meagher has gathered stories and images that trigger childhood memories for the respondent, each one just as authentic to its owner as 鈥淩osebud鈥� was to Kane.