The idea of a monument is traditionally tied to the historical commemoration of past events or figures—individuals whose actions have shaped collective memory and cultural identity. Monuments are often constructed to immortalize, to anchor time in space through form. But what happens if we shift the definition away from grand celebration and instead consider the monument as something that simply endures—something that remains, impassive, in the face of temporal, cultural, historical, or political change? A presence that, rather than loudly proclaiming meaning, quietly resists disappearance, bearing only faint scars or subtle traces of the time that has passed.

With these questions in mind, this project began as a search—for objects and spaces that exist at the threshold between significance and neglect, like quiet witnesses to the erosion and transformation brought by time. In their enduring presence, they echo the monumental in a different register: not as declarations of glory, but as resilient forms marked by memory, fragility, and the understated weight of survival.