Welcome to My… (2023 – present) is a personal archive project about memory, space, and digital permanence. Using 3D scanning, I documented the intimate architectural sites that shaped me, my childhood home, my school, my grandmother’s house, and the basement where I spent countless hours growing up. Created in 2023, the project asks what it means to preserve presence through digital reproduction. What do we save, and what gets erased in the process?

The project takes inspiration from Google Maps Street View, a tool designed for orientation and navigation that unintentionally becomes a memorial. In many locations, Street View preserves old, now-vanished versions of the world: outdated buildings, frozen gestures, people who are no longer alive. These images persist as quiet digital ghosts. That quality of unintentional preservation, the emotional residue of the overlooked, is at the heart of Welcome to My….

Rather than focusing on photographic realism, I used 3D scanning to create fragmented, low-resolution captures of familiar spaces. These scans are rough and incomplete, but that imperfection is intentional. They don’t reconstruct memory; they gesture toward it. What remains is not accuracy, but atmosphere, a haunted stillness suspended between past and present.

The final scans were sealed on a USB stick and archived as a closed object. This USB is not just a data container, but a speculative time capsule: a gift to my future self, a vessel for digital memory that may or may not be readable decades from now. It raises questions about technological decay, digital immortality, and the limits of remembering through machines.

But the project itself is never truly finished. With every move, I add another scan to the dataset. Welcome to My… will only reach completion when I no longer inhabit spaces, when I am no longer alive. It is a lifelong archive of presence, fragmented and cumulative, built not to preserve the past, but to carry it forward.