At the beginning of a journey – one of unknown path and end, I developed a special kind of diary: a wooden spool with a 40-meter-long paper ribbon, a carrying strap and a drawer.
This mobile archive has since accompanied me on my travels as handbag, mobile cinema and travel log throughout a two year long journey in Turkey – as a tool for recording experience and reflecting on how memory can be written, narrated and re-embodied.
The initially blank paper ribbon unfolds as a continuous stream of impressions over time.
Its linear arrangement contrasts with its mutability: it can be wound forward and backward, paused, and rearranged. In this way, the ribbon becomes a medium for thinking in motion – it moves with me through space, traversing geographical, cultural, and social contexts.
It carries traces of various places and encounters, shifts its meaning depending on the environment, and reflects the close connection between memory and sense of place.