AI (Off)

This piece explores the layers of life and learning — the grit, wear, and traces left behind by time and experience. Before AI, knowledge was something we had to dig for. To learn meant to seek, to struggle, to find someone who could teach.

Now, in a world on the edge of instant understanding, this work pauses in the moment before activation — when the switch is still off. It asks: what exists in the quiet before awareness, before the machine learns, before knowledge becomes effortless?