Anachronic Stamp was embodied in a temporary digital experience, launched in a four-part transmuting website. The non-permanent approach of this experience was thought to objectify the fiction's timeline, which outlines four distinct points in the main character's path of self-destruction and loss of identity through four main moments of memory erasure. Each phase of the online experience resembles a part of the fiction's timeline and is consequently locked in an expiration date, since the memories it relates to are being erased by the fiction's main character. Opposite to what was built in the Enactments, which delved into the fiction from an outside perspective, the individual character's view is retrieved in the fiction's ultimate object.
FIRST PHASE
JUNE 1-14
SECOND PHASE
JUNE 15-24
THIRD PHASE
JUNE 25-JULY 2
FOURTH PHASE
JULY 3-7
Hopelessly pining for a love that is never reciprocated, allowing this obsession to dominate his existence, the character initiates a path of self-destruction. The city and the material objects he devoutly collects build the enveloping atmosphere. Striving for happiness, he sets an expiration date to the memories pertaining to his loved-one. A sense of increasing alienation and distortion of reality is growing.
An illusive ambience shapes the character’s existence as he attempts to grasp a new sense of reality. A feeling of displacement and disorientation spreads, for the anchor to the city he lives in has been obliterated. An unbearable feeling of nostalgia towards a near past crawls in. Craving for serenity, he commits himself to erase all recollections of this now-vanished place.
A state of alienation and utter distortion of reality is expanding. The emergence of long-forgotten and repressed damaging memories dominates the character’s existence. Fragments of bright fading recollections build an ambiguous atmosphere. A fractious desire for restfulness incites the need for obliteration.
Because of the ceaseless cycles of memory erasure which he can no longer control, the character barely has any frames of reference left and his identity is increasingly fragmented. A frantic state of haziness and breaches of consciousness dictate his existence now. Disjointed reminiscences are continually obliterated and a sense of voidness is expanding, while time and space feel like nonsensical concepts.