Project B Dear Future

After Three Lines, Oblivion 

My interactive internet art project, Echoes of Choice, explores the tension between memory, impermanence, and meaning in a digital age. When the user opens the website, the screen is filled with flowing particles, evoking a dreamlike space where images emerge not clearly, but as flickers of memory or imagination. As users move their mouse across the canvas, these particles momentarily coalesce into vague dot-based images, like digital ghosts trying to be remembered. The act of exploration becomes intimate and uncertain—what you reveal is never fully complete, and always fleeting.

When a user clicks on one of these images, it becomes “frozen,” and is saved as one of their choices. Once three images have been selected, a short, three-line poem is generated, inspired by the emotional or thematic connections between those choices. This moment is both rewarding and irreversible. The chosen images are erased permanently from the experience, echoing the fragility of memory and the cost of meaning-making in a saturated world.

This project invites users to reflect on how digital interaction mirrors human memory: what we focus on, what we choose, what we lose in the process. Sent through the internet portal to the future, Echoes of Choice delivers a message about the poetic beauty of impermanence and the consequences embedded in every act of selection. It is not about preserving information forever, but about honoring the moments that shaped us—ephemeral, irretrievable, but deeply felt.

“The tape hums beneath the fading light.”

“The map folds where the horizon died.”

“A pen traces the paper, forgetting the lines of time.”