Memory is not only kept in images or written records. It can sit in a pigment grain, a charred stake, a strand of wire, a crochet loop, or an algae-derived colour that shifts our assumptions about dye. This August article reads material memory through Rino and Kaito Tokito, Mathieu Nouhen, we+, and Amy Hsu Tzu Chen.

Rather than treating memory as nostalgia, it asks how matter records pressure, heat, growth, collaboration and handling, and how those records change what an artwork or material can ask of the body.