Scrapbook
10 years of memories, receipts, tickets, photos, and moments turned into an irreplaceable physical artifact.
Timeline
2014 — 2024
Role
Concept, Design & Curation
Context
Personal Physical Archive
Medium
Hardcover Bookbinding & Ephemera
Unique 1-of-1 physical artifactThe Concept
Inspired by a small exhibit at a gallery hosted by Verci in New York City, I started on a personal journey to physically archive a decade of my own existence.
In our hyper-digitized world, moments slip away into endless photo camera rolls, buried beneath cloud subscriptions and algorithmic feeds. Paper receipts fade in shoe boxes, concert wristbands get thrown into garbage bags, and the physical texture of lived experience evaporates.
I collected and organized everything I preserved across ten pivotal years of my life, from high school through college, personal adventures, and professional milestones and transformed them into a tactile, curated, bound volume.
“No one truly lives the same life twice. In an age of endless digital duplication, a physical book of ephemera is definitive proof of an unrepeatable life.”
Archival Eras & Chapters
High School
FoundationsAcceptance letters, Internships, high school notes, and photos.
Moved to the USA, College & The Pandemic
TransformationCollege Acceptance letters, First Job offer, Train passes, early apartment receipts, and photos from my first few years in NYC.
Post-Grad & New York Life
CulminationConcerts, hardware projects, exhibitions, film test strips, business cards, polaroid photos, and offer marking the transition into full-time creative engineering.
Core Elements
Physical Ephemera Archiving
Rescuing everyday physical scraps—fading thermal receipts, worn transit passes, and museum tickets—before they deteriorate or disappear forever.
Chronological Life Chapters
Structured into 3 distinct four-year phases tracing personal evolution from adolescence through college and early adulthood.
Intentional Selection
Carefully curating thousands of saved objects down to the most evocative, tactile artifacts that trigger vivid multisensory memories.
Tactile Hand-Binding
Handcrafted using durable archival materials engineered to withstand decades of handling and page turning.
Analog & Instant Prints
From 35mm film negatives to instant peel-apart film, directly alongside corresponding receipts and tickets.
Irreplaceable Artifact
A conscious pushback against the online only media and forms of expressions by creating my own physical book.
Physical & Archival Specs
| Specification | Archival Detail |
|---|---|
| Physical Format | Hardcover case-bound archival volume with reinforced linen spine |
| Chronological Scope | 10 full years (June 2014 — June 2024) |
| Ephemera Categories | Transit cards, receipts, boarding passes, polaroids, gallery badges, handwritten letters |
| Photographic Formats | 35mm gelatin silver prints, medium format test strips, Fujifilm Instax, 4×6 color prints |
| Paper & Adhesives | Acid-free heavyweight archival cardstock with pH-neutral PVA adhesive |
| Production Volume | Singular 1-of-1 physical artifact (non-reproducible) |
| Curatorial Theme | Physical grounding of memory in an ephemeral digital age |
Materials & Media
Create Your Own Life Archive
Take your memories off the screen. Collect your tickets, preserve your receipts, and see how much your life has changed overtime.