§ 01 · epistemology
Two kinds of memory. Never conflated.
Direct
I was there.
First-hand recollections, anchored in your own senses. The archive treats these as primary evidence — the closest thing we have to the moment itself.
Proxy
I was told.
Collective memories — what a mother, a friend, a stranger recounted. Held gently, weighted differently, but never dismissed. Emotion travels through them.
§ 02
Evidentiary sources
Attach photographs, voice recordings, letters, documents, and short videos to each account. The archive holds the artifact, not just the words.
§ 03
Collective boards
Invite family, friends, witnesses. Each perspective sits side by side — direct and proxy — never merged into a single false consensus.
§ 04
Emotional reconstruction
The archivist reads every account and its evidence, then writes a warm, literary reconstruction — noting convergences, contradictions, and silences.
“What we remember together is not always what happened —
but it is always what mattered.”
— editor's note