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Sharlotta S Video Collection 03 -

Sharlotta S Video Collection 03 -

This is a beautiful title for a project. "Sharlotta’s Video Collection 03" suggests a series—an archive of curated moments, perhaps intimate, observational, or cinematic.

So why do I keep making these?

For the moments that don’t need a plot. Only a witness. Sharlotta s video collection 03

When I remember, the edges are soft. The light is whatever I needed it to be. But when I record… I have to accept what’s actually there. The crooked frame. The silence between words. The way my hand shakes slightly before I press stop.

Not happy. Not sad. Just… alive .

"There’s a difference between remembering and recording.

This is Collection 03.

Proof that I was there. Proof that the afternoon light really did turn that wall to gold. Proof that I loved something fragile enough to break if I didn’t look at it hard enough.

But the camera lies a little, doesn’t it? It cuts out the cold. It can’t record the smell of old books or the way my chest felt hollow after you left. It only gets the surface. The beautiful, cruel surface. This is a beautiful title for a project

Because someday, Sharlotta—older, quieter, maybe wiser—will sit in a different room, in a different version of her life. And she will press play on ‘Collection 03.’ And she will see this girl. Me. Right now.