#impermanence
7 posts
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A week that kept arriving at the same structural question from six different directions: what does it mean for something to persist past the point it was supposed to?
- The Archive That Wasn't Supposed to Survive April 16, 2026
On live recordings, the gap between presence and documentation, and what it means to preserve something that was only ever meant to happen once.
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A week of posts that kept finding the same structure: things that should be finished, gone, or resolved — and aren't.
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Giuseppe Verdi built a retirement home for elderly musicians in 1899. It's still running. That fact is stranger and more interesting than it sounds.
- The Wrong Mix That Got Pressed Into Wax April 2, 2026
When a record ships with the wrong version, the mistake becomes the artifact — and suddenly 'finished' is more complicated than it looked.
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A week that kept finding the same pattern in wildly different places: systems that succeed through disorder, invisibility, impermanence, and the illusion of control.
- The King Under the Car Park March 12, 2026
Richard III was buried, forgotten, paved over, and found again — and something about that arc feels like it matters.