One home for everything you have ever made.
Twenty years of work — writings, drawings, paintings, songs and film — scattered across formats and drives. The Archive gathers it into a single, searchable museum of one life: a curated public wing, a complete private vault, and an uploader so simple you are the only person who ever needs to touch it.
“Think the MoMA artist section — but it is only me, and it covers my entire life.”
A multidisciplinary artist, paraphrasing the goal · 20+ years of work since 2004
Type “coffee.” Twenty years answer.
One search bar spans every format and every year. A text, a drawing, a song and a film clip — all tagged coffee — surface together. Beside it, the in-browser book reader turns the pages of a scanned manuscript. This is the live product, playing on its own.
iii. the long winter
By February the studio had gone quiet. I kept the notebooks anyway, out of a stubbornness I could not name.
They are here now, every one, with the drawings tucked between their pages.
p. 6–7ii. notes on a cold cup
The coffee had gone cold an hour ago. I wrote until the window turned blue, and then I drew the cup the way it actually was — chipped, ringed, ordinary.
I did not throw the page away. Twenty years later, the cup is still here.
p. 4–5A unified media engine, end to end.
Every kind of work you have ever made, rendered inline in one archival-grade interface — no plugins, no downloads, no second system to learn.
Page-flip book reader
Texts and scanned books open as a real, turnable reader — readable inline, the way a book in a collection should be.
Image viewer with zoom
Drawings and paintings shown at full quality with deep zoom, framed on the wall with a clean museum-style label.
Audio & video players
Songs and films play in-browser with a quiet, custom player — no third-party embed, no leaving the archive.
One search, every format
Full-text across writings plus a tag index across all media — filtered by year, medium and tag, returned as one timeline.
Museum-style labels
Every item carries a wall label — Title · Date · Medium · Tags — with its own deep link, just like a catalogue entry.
Public & private layers
Toggle any item between the curated public exhibition and the complete, auth-gated private vault — one click per work.
Drag. Drop. It files itself.
The uploader detects what you dropped — text, image, audio, video or a PDF book — and asks only for the four things that matter. Twenty years of backlog goes into a “needs metadata” queue and gets filled in at your pace.
A curated wing the world sees.
A complete vault only you do.
Privacy is baked into every item, not bolted on. Publish a selection as a clean public exhibition; keep the rest — and everything in progress — in a private archive behind your login.
The wing the world walks through
A quiet, institutional public view of the works you choose to show — fast, deep-linkable, and built to be read.
Everything, since the beginning
The complete archive — drafts, the unfinished, the personal — auth-gated and visible only to you, the curator.
Built to outlive its host.
This is a 10+ year project, so it is built on durable, framework-native foundations — chosen for longevity, not novelty.
Originals kept
Every original file is preserved alongside web-optimised derivatives — quality never degrades.
Full data export
One-click export of the whole archive, so it can move and outlive any single host.
Boring on purpose
Next.js · Postgres full-text search · object storage — maintainable for a decade, not a season.
Fast & responsive
Static-fast pages, perfect on phone and desktop, so browsing feels like a gallery, not a wait.
See your museum before you commit to building it.
This page is a concept — the real working slice would be the public exhibition, an item page with the flip-book reader, and the unified “search coffee → all media” demo, so you can walk your own archive before the long build begins.
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