Next Iteration 

After more brainstorming sessions, we were inspired by one of our class's warmup assignments to "let go",  as outlined in the Sas Paper to developing our next concept. In the Sas paper, in order to forget painful memories of divorce, death, or separation, people performed various rituals, such as melting wedding rings, burying necklaces, or cutting photos.

Similarly, we performed and interviewed people with their experiences of letting go. Interestingly, when we asked people to burn photos of them with their former loved ones to help them forget a breakup, they believed the process was "interesting" and yet unsettling, since there was discomfort from the physical act of burning photos. However, they remarked that burning was a desirable solution, as the actual destruction of the photos would not be done by them, but by the fire.  

Thus, this inspired us to create an object that would transform a digital object, like a photo, into a physical object, and then perform a ritual with the physical object to help us forget the original memory. Moreover, considering feedback from those user interviews, we also desired a means to indirectly engage in these physical acts without actually doing the physical act, such as burning or cutting a photo.