Becoming Room

No one can keep everything.

At some point, we let go. A toy once loved. Clothes that no longer fit. Letters that once felt essential. Some objects leave quietly. Others are harder to release.

Psychologists studying clutter note that letting go can bring relief, even joy. To release is not always to lose. Sometimes it is to acknowledge that something has completed its work. At the end of life, people often choose just one or two objects to pass on. A ring. A photograph. A handwritten note. A distillation of what mattered most.

And sometimes the most powerful objects are the ones that do not yet exist. The future keepsakes. The imagined artefacts of lives still unfolding.

Letting go
Acts of release that make space for what is next.

Objects of absence
Reminders of what is missing yet still shapes us.

Future keepsakes
Seeds of memory waiting to be worn into meaning.