In Absence, the systems that usually work invisibly—memory, labor, care, digital preservation—are rendered slow, visible, and fallible. Absence is an experiment in memory under pressure: a system designed to observe what disappears, and how. The piece exists between sculpture and system, between gesture and machine. Its beauty is contingent, its logic indifferent. But within its fragile protocol, something emerges: the way a person returns each day, or forgets to. The way the grid accumulates gaps. The way the flower appears, or doesn’t.
