Steel tears in a virtual ocean
No salt in their flavor, no connection at all.

These are the digital traces that accumulate in our devices over time, like clutter. Due to its sheer presence and overwhelming volume, unfiltered data encourages false confidence and promotes a false sense of security. We are less inclined to be deliberate or selective in shaping our emotional landscape or organizing our thoughts. Unless you consciously filter emotions yourself, technology eclipses the intimacy of emotion, stripping it of its sacredness.
Through artificial intelligence-driven filtering, synthetic, rendered memories crystallize into the metal-coated spheres. These spheres are submerged and suspended in a digital sea of black oil — amorphous and insulating, which shifts from liquid to solid yet retains distinct physical properties. This technocratic realm is both captivating and unsettling. The genuine selection of human memories is tied to intangible sensations like smell or taste. No matter how richly they’re described verbally or visually, the genuine emotional triggers of real memories can’t be replicated artificially. Instead, what forms is a new illusion, a kind of "sub-personality" with its alien inner world — an entity separate from our authentic self.