Memories and Ink fades, links rot, collections cycle, and censors edit and rewrite.
Building archives, even if only in private, is both a defensive and optimistic act.
Make copies of artifacts and please write about them excruciating detail, document from weird angles, note the obvious, and the absurd.
Presuppose a future where someone else wants to know that artifact as you know it.
No one person, or org, can hold back the fog of time forever, but consider giving history a helping hand.
Both my artistic and technical interests have resulted in a renewed appreciation for both niche contemporary documentation and the historical archives that they become.
And also a firm belief that there is nowhere near enough writing or drawing or pictures on any subject.
Think back 10-20 years ago, pick any mundate aspect of your life, fully inspect it in your mind and attempt to determine how it came to be exactly that way, what forces led to that, where did they go?
And document it.
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