The archive is not a moodboard.
Images become useful when they reveal a recurring obsession, not when they merely share a colour.
An archive is a record of attention. It shows what keeps returning before there is a brief, a format or a reason to make the work useful.
Photography, code, type and physical objects can belong to the same practice without looking identical. The connection is often a repeated decision: how much information to remove, where an image becomes a system, when precision should give way to accident.
The archive matters because it preserves those decisions before they are explained into something safer. It is not a warehouse of references. It is evidence of a point of view in motion.