Instead of a Conclusion: Closure

I started this initial research, long before I knew what I was questioning, with the motivation to archive by preserving. I assumed that ephemeral knowledge, difficult stories passed down or never spoken out loud, need to be saved from the dangers of forgetting. This was, admittedly, a narrow way of looking at both archiving and a history of conflict.
Memory, as a material, is haunting and spectral, in light of trauma it resurfaces and disappears in unexpected ways. It cannot be stored securely and contained in its entirety. And this is something to learn from and think along with.
Understanding the mechanisms of both memory and oral history allowed for a different archive, that was built by and with the unreliable.
If you want to know more about the research backbone of this project, you can find my lyrics essay on (website name here).