A handwritten note never sent. Lost for a decade, now scrawled twice — once clearly along the border, and then punctured into a rotating void. It is a reflection on the fallibility of reflections. Memories of memories. Emotionally augmented reality. Even tangible artifacts from our past become warped by who we are now.

The treatment of text as both meaning and material creates a powerful tension between legibility and abstraction, between the impulse to speak and the act of withholding.

Valence was released as part of SHILLR’s season 3 curated releases in November, 2024.