Comments on: Reflection on the Time Capsule

By: ipadbaby22

ipadbaby22 — Thu, 30 Apr 2026 22:40:06 +0000

David, thank you for sharing about this project!

I have to admit I didn’t remember what the Golden Record was until you mentioned Carl Sagan, ha-ha. I like the idea of showing life or culture through objects, and did something similar for my alien missive in experimental writing (I assume that is the project you are referring to). However, mine was still on paper with .pngs of items rather than the physical item itself. I also enjoy the fact you brought this as a collaborative project to the CSW, inviting others to share ideas and items of importance. You highlight something very important; the fact we all live very different lives with very different experiences and ideas, yet existing as humans together gives us an experience almost anyone can relate to.

By: LKSOC1004

LKSOC1004 — Tue, 28 Apr 2026 23:23:49 +0000

I was really impressed with the time capsule artifact. I didn’t get to see it at the CSW, but I was in class when you presented it in Experimental Writing. I really loved how all the smaller ideas came together for something grand and cohesive overall. The most striking part about it was how it felt dually personal and universal. While the objects in the case were personal to the group, they represented something so much more. You’re speech about the artifact in class was very powerful. You said something along the lines of “This is us, this is the human experience.” I really think your work here absolutely communicated something essential about what it means to be human. It was beautiful.

By: li_05

li_05 — Thu, 23 Apr 2026 23:10:57 +0000

I had wanted to stop by your table the first half because I was really interested in what you guys could have. A suitcase on the table during a writing/science fair was very interesting concept. Hearing you talk about it afterwards was interesting but hearing this side of it is really interesting. I was thinking to myself what I would put into the suitcase and my first thought was a picture of the people I care about and my second thought was poetry. I was trying to figure out what poetry I would even beginning to put in a time capsule like that. Then I started drifting towards visual arts and then as I read your article I realized just how instinctual it is to define the human race as something artistic! It’s such an interesting thing and it makes you wonder if this is something that connects all sentient “intelligent” life or if, if there were extraterrestrials what would they put in their suitcases?