Empty Vessels

The cool smoothness of the mug betrays no lingering warmth, yet its emptiness doesn't signify obliteration. Instead, prior experience has redistributed itself—a subtle layering that highlights the porous boundary between what *is* and what *was*. This dynamic process suggests memories aren’t simply contained but bleed into surrounding contexts as varying intensities. Meaning, then, isn’t a fixed property of objects themselves, but arises from their potential to accommodate temporal drift.