T4 WEEK 2 - WORKSHOP
- Feb 19
- 2 min read
TASK: Collect a minimum of 3 meaningful objects to serve as the foundation for my new body of work to be shared and discussed in class.
Camera
Interruption
Witness
Suspension
Attention between steps
Recording my journey
My memory
The camera functions as a cognitive prosthetic. It captures the interval not only to observe uncertainty, but to retain it. As memory becomes unreliable, the camera becomes a tool of preservation. It records what might otherwise dissolve. It does not simply mark the act of seeing; it safeguards the moment against forgetting.
Hard Drive
Archive
Containment
Memory storage
Accumulation
Digital preservation
What is kept
What cannot be held physically
The hard drive suggests preservation against loss. It becomes the counterpoint to memory fragility, a technological archive intended to stabilise what the body may no longer reliably retain. Yet this preservation is not absolute. Hard drives fail. Files corrupt. Digital storage is itself vulnerable. The anxiety remains that both biological and technological memory can fracture. The archive offers resistance, but not certainty.
Converse Sneakers
Movement
Threshold
Negotiation
Fatigue
Persistence
Embodied navigation
The sneakers represent the body in motion. They anchor the project physically. They carry the weight of instability and the insistence to continue.
Painkillers
Management
Suppression
Endurance
Threshold of tolerance
Temporary relief
Body under pressure
Negotiated survival
The painkillers introduce the lived condition directly. They are quiet but central to the work’s reality. They signal that movement is not neutral; it is mediated.
Stamp with my name in Kanji
Identity
Authorship
Claiming presence
Cultural reference
Ritual marking
Inscription
Existence affirmed
The Kanji stamp is significant within the framework of mu. In Japanese tradition, personal seals (hanko) function as formal markers of identity and legitimacy. The stamp asserts presence. It counters erasure. It becomes a ritual affirmation: I was here.
Narrative
Together, these objects form an embodied system of survival.
The sneakers move.
The body negotiates pain.
Painkillers mediate endurance rather than remove pain.
The camera functions as a cognitive prosthetic, retaining moments that memory may not hold.
The hard drive preserves what instability threatens to erase.
The stamp asserts identity within uncertainty. The narrative becomes one of persistence under condition. Within the philosophical condition of mu (無), nothing resolves into permanence. This is not a story of resolution. It is a story of continuation between footsteps.
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