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chaherige@outlook.com
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The most ordinary details in our daily lives often reveal the truest parts of who we are.
What we think of as random choices are, more often than not, unconscious decisions made around a central axis: ourselves.
During the pandemic in 2022, I walked the streets of London and stopped strangers at random.
I asked them to take out their keychains — the ones sitting quietly in their pockets — and write a short description of them on paper.
What they offered were chipped plastic tags, key fobs from countries they barely remembered, and keys to doors they no longer recognized.
These keychains, seemingly insignificant, became tiny archives of memory — fragments of self, carried unknowingly from place to place.
Through these objects, subtle clues emerged.
And in them, glimpses of their owners: their habits, their humor, their hesitations.
Sometimes, it’s in the smallest things that people become visible.