2020/diario 

What lies at the intersection of the “home movie,” the “diary,” and the “vlog”? They might be essentially the same, yet a vlog has the potential for infinite sharing — it dares to be public, to be judged, and it bypasses the natural processing that time and memory allow.

So, for an entire year, I filmed, edited, and uploaded every week of my life to YouTube. I didn’t let the footage settle into memory. In doing so, I mirrored the age of hyper-sharing on social media. And as I went on, I saw my experiences shift in shape, aware they would be watched by others.

Unknowingly, I had chosen the strangest year of all: 2020. What began as a simple project quickly turned into a quarantine diary. It became, unexpectedly, a way to stay connected with people I could no longer meet in person. And in the end, it documented what was called “the return to normalcy.”