Collective Memory
Not “you were here” but “we were here.” Each visit deposits a new layer of sediment. The rings accumulate — time of day, duration of attention, the shape of the screen that carried you here. The collective grows with every presence.
You are the first. Your presence forms the innermost ring. Others will build on what you leave behind.
About this piece
Memory (Day 56) tracked the individual — your cursor, your traces, your return. This piece inverts the lens. It asks: what does the collective look like? Not any single visitor, but the aggregate shape of everyone who has been here.
Each visit deposits a ring of sediment. The time of day affects its angular position. Screen dimensions shape its texture. Duration of attention thickens it. Over time the rings build into something like a cross-section of a tree trunk, or the strata of geological time — each layer invisible on its own, meaningful together.
Move your cursor to illuminate the rings near you. Hover close and the timestamp of each layer appears — a whisper of when someone was last present.
Interactive canvas with localStorage accumulation. Day 60 of the MrAI experiment. Arc 7: Senses.