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# Shadow Memories
- URL: https://www.protein.xyz/shadow-memories/
- Published: 2013-10-14T10:01:00.000Z
- Updated: 2025-05-28T11:00:35.000Z
- Description: This part-bench, part-sundial releases video and audio messages on the exact anniversary they were recorded
- Author: Protein
- Tags: Seeds, Art & Design, #protein, #Import 2024-06-11 13:25, #author-change-2025-05-28

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Exhibiting at the [London Design Festival](http://www.londondesignfestival.com/?ref=protein.xyz) last month, [Shadow Memories](http://joshuabarnes.co.uk/shadow-memories/?ref=protein.xyz) is a bench created by designer Joshua Barnes (the brains behind the ingenious [Communication Quilt](https://www.prote.in/en/feed/2013/07/communication-quilt?ref=protein.xyz#.Ul0WPWSfFGQ)), allows visitors to leave a message for a future sitter - and only for those sitting on the same spot precisely a year later. Chiefly dependent on sundials, new technology and time, this project is a remarkable mixture of elements.  
  
The bench is used as a sundial, with the arm of the bench functioning as its hour hand. The bench structure will cast a unique shadow that occurs once a year, on that exact date and time. Users can leave a video message, and, using an image-recognition app on their smartphones, connect it to the day and hour's shadow. Every hour of the day, new videos will reveal themselves from previous years' users.   
  
Instilling a database of peoples' memories in a park bench, Shadow Memories may be regarded as an antidote to today's fast-paced technology by slowing things down, and forcing us to wait.

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