An ordinary chair is coated with a film of phosphorescence to record and reveal its memory.
“The new time of architecture is thus that of memory, which replaces history. The individual artifact for the first time is understood within the psychological construct of collective memory... With the introduction of memory into the object, the object comes to embody both an idea of itself and a memory of a former self”
-Peter Eisenman, Preface to Rossi’s “The Architecture of the City”
