The Archive and the Self: What We Keep, What We Forget
A meditation on how personal archives evolve — tying digital preservation to memory, mortality, and meaning.
We build archives to remember. To hold on to the moments that would otherwise dissolve into the noise of passing days. Yet in doing so, we confront a paradox: the act of preservation changes the very thing we are trying to preserve. Every photograph we keep becomes both artifact and filter — proof of what mattered once, and a quiet declaration of what did not.