Imbuing things with value.
That doesn’t mean the value is false.
Maybe imbuing it helps us to find it.
Fake it ‘til you make it.
A fragment of the past wasn’t important, until we decided it was.
Or maybe it was. For some body at some time.
It was important until we decided it wasn’t,
or we just never heard about it.
Maybe importance is not as important as we think.
“Welcome to the room. I’ve heard you’re an expert”, I might say,
making this visitor feel welcome and important
or rather
making this visitor actually welcome and important.
“These objects need categorising, need a reason to be here, need to be contextualised, need to be named, need to be explained. Dear expert, please help me decide.”
