In the digital age, memory carriers exist in a paradox: they are immortal yet fragile. Digital photos never fade, yet a single accident can erase them forever. Their undying nature often resembles a passive curse—untouched, unseen, and ultimately forgotten.
Most digital images hold meaning only for their creators and vanish into obscurity after their passing, cursed with a hollow immortality. Seeking permanence, we extract moments from time, yet even the most stable data rarely outlives its maker.
To explore this contradiction, Dashen printed 1,000 digital photos of his hometown and assembled them into a traditional Chinese armor—symbolic yet useless in defense. It reflects the absurdity of entrusting impermanent materials with eternal digital ghosts, both destined to perish in their own ways.