When doing archival research, I kept asking: why do we give paper so much power? I believe the genesis of an answer begins with something very simple: because it is something tangible that’s been left behind, something we can touch and hold, as if we can confirm a moment or a memory with a physical object, an artifact. This piece of paper survived, others didn’t. I’m not saying that’s a good start. I’m saying that there must be a balance in the dialogue…that complicated intersection between the visible and intangible, between what is written and culture, belief, imagination, photos, stories, experience, and tradition. It’s hard but forgetting is too high of a price to pay.