accumulation - by jaron - the way home
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sorting our burdens
“Mediterranean” by @kira0art, made in p5.js I have over 1,255 Spotify playlists. I'm a hoarder of songs, an intricate categorizer of abstract feelings and scenarios that sound waves paint and etch onto my brain. It's far too easy to accumulate, and far too hard to let go. This accumulation has been a constant all my life: the aggregation of people, places, experiences. Clothes that I wore once. People that wore me once. Intertwined paths and transitory interactions that are collected and categorized and shuffled away into the cubicles of my life. Every so often an object in there becomes…
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