The Saddest Birthday Dinner A digital curatorial work I created exploring the impossibility of perfect expression and the beauty of collective misunderstanding. Born from the struggle to write a eulogy that could never fully capture a lost love, this project transforms personal grief into a collaborative system that embraces incompleteness rather than demanding coherence.

The work takes the form of a live lyrical essay where visitors can edit any sentence, continuously reshaping the narrative for those who follow. Each change overwrites the previous version, creating an ever-shifting text that embodies the instability of meaning itself. Rather than trying to preserve or control interpretation, the project asks: how can we live with incomplete expression and still stay connected?

Set to launch on my 30th birthday as both timestamp and temporal wound, The Saddest Birthday Dinner operates as an open table where strangers can sit and alter the story being told.

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