para-archival autoethnography

• “my personal accounts might be seen as a kind of a micro-layer of capture culture that I have attempted to weave together. While giving priority to the currents of a singular everyday life, this micro-layer, I believe, simultaneously opens a perspective onto a macro-perspective, and hence meets a condition of the auto-ethnographic account: connecting the personal with a broader cultural state of a given moment.” ⤴️
• “the move from documenting her personal life and concerns toward re-directing attention towards a documentary project of a broader cultural significance” ⤴️
• “parallel to her other daily activities, within time somewhat inevitably began to reflect numerous cultural, political and socio-material transformations” ⤴️
• “These patchworks of traditional and modern representations, increasingly eclectic over the course of the project, evoke the political, cultural and ideological transformations that Poland experienced during last decades of Rydet’s life.” ⤴️