the first fragment
Something familiar begins to surface in the emulsion, then refuses to remain whole. The image remembers a room, a face, a choice; the signal remembers only the tear.
Something familiar begins to surface in the emulsion, then refuses to remain whole. The image remembers a room, a face, a choice; the signal remembers only the tear.
Each record descends at a different speed, as if the archive cannot agree on gravity. The barely damaged frames accuse the ruined ones of telling the truth too plainly.
the same darkness, viewed from the other side