field companions - by Spencer Chang - spencer's paradoxes

[TI-17] a world of computation all around us and infinite possibility

I'm a hoarder by nature. It might have come from my parents who keep every spare grocery bag, packaging box, and more stacked high in organized clumps in their extra storage room. I feel a deep nostalgia for objects and places. I'm obsessed with all the history they hold, especially when their lifetimes may be several times our own. We encounter so many things in our daily lives that have seen much more than we have. Whenever I visit a place with history, I try to picture scenes that happened so long ago in the same place. If I listen closely, I can feel their energy communicating with me.…

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