Overlap

We have a bag full of planets, stars, our favorite moments, darkest fears, best intentions and worst feelings. We contain them and sometimes they overlap each other. Sometimes we are happy and sad; sometimes we forget why we were even mad in the beginning. But we also share some of these moments or galaxies that reside in our bags with other souls. We remember the same moment through a different window. We remember that day as cold, whereas they remember it as warm. One by one, these moments create one snapshot of the reality. The reality we create collectively. We sometimes trust our memories and our memories always trust us.

We overlap, we crawl through memory lane. We go silently through the gates of space and time, we exchange our sights with each other and for one spectacular moment, all the stars in our bags spill and we get to see through each others eyes. Our bag is now in the middle, its ready for you to discover and see the networks of our minds, make knots in the middle or intervene with what we call a collective memory of a few xpubbers.

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Overlap was produced in June 2023 as part of TTY, special issue 21 of the experimental publishing masters at piet zwart institute, rotterdam. For more see issue.xpub.nl/21