The fragment admits of becoming because, like matter, it is bound either to transform or to disappear altogether. It is open to both possibilities.
Being and matter meet here in an uneasy opposition. Being seeks its own survival, while matter openly admits its dissolution—yet Being knows itself to be composed of matter. This is the uncanniness of the real: the tension between Being and matter cannot be overcome.
When Being dissolves and passes away, it leaves behind traces—a remainder, a fragment. These fragments do not lie dormant. They persist as events that have occurred, impressions that remain available to time itself. They are slivers of duration that momentarily organized matter, and in doing so, briefly provided Being with a platform on which to exist—one without precedent and without guarantee of return.
This project seeks to isolate such fragments long enough to read them, to see them, to think with them—before they dissolve again into the world, even if only for a moment.