collectiblr reflects on what makes something collectible, valuable, and worth remembering in the digital age.
Through this website, I have collected 3d scans of items that are significant to me: from giraffe figurines I have accumulated over the years to wildflowers and mushrooms I have found in the wild. To me, each object represents more than a physical form as they are attached to various moments, places, and people that I have known. Through this scanning process I can capture the traces of memories as digital files. I can remember forms that once existed in the world even as my mind may forget and move on. Even as these digital forms of remembering can be just as ephemeral, impermanent, and prone to decay over time.
Equipped with augmented reality and 3d capabilities, the project echoes the nostalgia of collectible objects, observations, and memories in a speculative, virtual space. Overall, this project is simultaneously an ode to collecting and an exploration of the identities we place in physical objects and digital data, both of which are abstractions of our thoughts and memories.
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