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FORCING EVERYTHING I’VE LOST TO RETURN.
video, 20m. website. 3D animation. etched marble. metal book.
FORCING EVERYTHING I’VE LOST TO RETURN. began by exploring this through a quest: to look for livestreams that I had made as a child on a now-defunct app. Similar to many of my peers, I had unrestricted internet access at an early age. Uh oh. That means everything I’ve ever done online is forever documented somewhere... At least that’s what I was told growing up. But I guess this isn’t true. Not everything online is forever … nothing is.
Aside from my self-documentation online, meticulous documentation of myself exists through physical photographs and videos — the most compelling being the videos of my birth. As I continued work on this project, an interest in physical and personal archives arose. This expanded the investigation to explore the connection between physical and digital artifacts, memory, loss, and preservation within a rapidly evolving technological context. Over time, a new question came to the forefront: How can I make something last forever?
This work further defines my creative practice — from process to output. FORCING EVERYTHING I’VE LOST TO RETURN. is unequivocally an amalgamation of my interests and thoughts made accessible to others.
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Published in Framework 103