Preserving (recording) Traces
How can preserving/recording traces be of value?
- Preserving a trace to be further investigated next time.
- Preserving a trace to bring to another generation (when it might prove more useful then than now)
Lasciare Tracce
Traces seen, traces interpreted and traces un-noticed.. What traces have you observed today?
Traces that Unveil (Facades)
How can we leave traces to unveil veil new truth/knowledge?
- Cover up a trace (making it look like something else).
- So that it can only be discovered by someone who really needs/deserves to know.
When we stop leaving traces..
A connection seems to be lost.
A connection is what makes us part of something else. When we are disconnected, we are alone.
Approach: Bridging Connections
Optimal: Perfect Knowledge
But, we don’t want EVERYBODY to have perfect knowledge of us.
How can you NOT leave a trace?
- Wrap everything with plastic
- Remove finger prints
- Wear gloves
- Not leaving anything behind
- Don’t touch anything
- Don’t move
- Auto-cleaning surfaces
- Floating
- All traces look the same
- Traces erase traces
The aim of this question was to uncover what traces meant to people. Judging by the answers I have received, it appears that leaving traces equates to leaving your presence behind; a hint of what one were doing.
Leave no trace..
Where, or when, should we not leave traces?
- When leaving a trace could damage something meant to be preserved.
- When leaving a trace (such as removing something from a place) would deny another person of enjoying an experience he/she is meant to.
- When we don’t want our presence to be discovered.
What do traces mean to people?
Leaving traces is a characteristic of human activity on the Earth, a necessary condition for maintaining a personal or collective memory, whether desirable or not.
To people, traces serve as a language of its own; A dialect between the visible and invisible, the past and the present. What we can’t convey in words, we can convey with traces. What we cannot reach with time, we can reach with traces.
In short, traces are a form of communication for us.. once we stop leaving traces, we feel like that very connection with another person is lost.
To avoid the lost of connection, can we freeze/preserve traces?
What good could it bring us?
