Tenuous Ground
Each object’s story proved less about what *was* and more about its absence from other possibilities—a single point radiating potential timelines instead of reflecting a settled past. Agency, then, wasn't inherent in the artifact itself but emerged through choices made during recollection and curation, inevitably altering the record with each intervention. Time drifted not as linear decay, but as overlapping echoes; attempting to grasp any one history meant acknowledging the inevitable entropy of all others. This process doesn’t offer a complete picture, yet it illuminates how meaning is continuously created rather than simply found.