Documents
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Documents is a branching, decades-spanning hypertext narrative that weaves together my family history using photos and both original writing and transcribed interviews from with my great grandmother.
By visually zooming in and out of photos to focus in on faces, hands, fabrics, or other elements in the family photos, I’m able to link different moments in time or different people together across the web pages; through Documents, the viewer is able to see my family members grow up, go through life changes, and ultimately connect with each other.
At the transition points between connections, I often include text from the interviews with my great grandmother, as well as my own interpretations of family memories, to help contextualize the images and create opportunities for branching paths; clicking certain phrases can reveal a completely different set of images as you explore the narrative.