The Unknowing of the Younger Me, 2025
Every technology coerces an exchange. In this photo of myself as a child, I no longer remember that day; I remember the photograph. It hasn’t preserved my childhood. It has replaced it. Using technology, I de-thaw this frozen moment: the child drops their arm, runs. These actions are not memory but patterns learned across millions of other childhoods. It is a homunculus: plausible but not true, convincing but never real.