ENYA 佳懿 PAN
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Enya Pan is an interdisciplinary designer, research rabbit hole enthusiast, and recent Brown|RISD Dual Degree Program graduate.

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// MAY 2025
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WEB CONCEPTUAL
 Loss is our first lesson in mystery. It teaches us that not everything can be saved, stored, or held, that systems of logic- the foundation of life as we currently know it have limits. We learn that sometimes, what's most human is what we cannot explain. In case of loss, please return to: is an exploration of loss not as absence, but as a site of emotional residue, where we can only feel what we feel after we have lost what we lost. To truly understand the world we live in is to acknowledge that a lot of it is a beautiful mystery.

Inspired by Craigslist's 'missed connections' ad postings, this project seeks to create a space to gather those fragments of time, where people can share what they've lost, turning this collection into a living archive of what slips away and the ways we reach for it. You can leave something here, and maybe someone else will find it; you can find something here, and while it may not be yours, it may pierce the heart and feel strangely familiar. This digital-turned-physical archive grows with each entry, each act of surrender, each quiet attempt at either holding on or letting go.

To lose is to live. And sometimes, to find is not to recover, but to discover to stumble across what we didn't know we were seeking. What is lost can be found; or, perhaps, not all that is lost wants to be found. Maybe that's what this is: a gathering of echoes, a love letter to everything we couldn't hold on to, a goodbye to what once was.