In the near future, where the digital outlives the physical, the fragments we leave behind: dead links, unfinished files, outdated profiles, begin to create a new kind of material presence. This project speculates about the “afterlife” of personal media, about digital waste that, like plastic in the 20th century, is redefining the texture of memory. These remnants, deformed and incomplete, do not speak with clarity but with interference, like trying to recall a voice from a damaged recording.

Here, memory becomes at once stored and lost, preserved and distorted by the very systems we built to keep it safe. The project suggests that digital debris carries emotional weight: it is not merely an archive, but a material that shapes how we remember and how we grieve. Transposed into 3D and augmented reality, these speculative, ghostly objects become monuments to unfinished communication and the impossibility of closure in an age of perpetual connectivity.

The project explores the moment when the boundary between data and memory blends. When media begin to decay, they do not disappear, they transform and a trace remains, not to be forgotten.