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Reminder for Davenport Road is a visual study of how visual memory works and the objective evidence in the process of remembering.

At a previous point in his career, Stan Denniston created an extensive series of paired landscape photographs called Reminders. He employed the following procedure: on occasion, in the course of his travels, an unfamiliar scene caused the recall, immediately and specifically, of a locale from his past. Denniston photographed the scene that triggered the memory, and over time, returned to the remembered site to photograph it. To avoid contrived similarities, he left the processing of the initial image until after the second image had been recorded. The two images were then presented side-by-side.

Denniston returned, in a fashion, to 'remindering' in this work for 911 Davenport Road.

"This site brings to mind a location from my childhood in Esquimalt, on Vancouver Island. It was an instantaneous connection, effortless, even though the two don't look anything alike. I have no special attachment to the old grocery that used to be at 1290 Lyall Street. I remember it as simply the nearest place to go for penny candy. But it was highly unusual for the neighbourhood it was in; an ordinary house with a commercial facade built to the sidewalk. It ceased to be a store in the early sixties." - Stan Denniston

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