Let Go - A Ritual

One photograph. One word. One of three ways to let it go. Let Go is a small, deliberate app for parting with something painful you keep scrolling past. You choose a single memory - and give it a word. Then you choose how it leaves. BY FLAME. The photograph sits in the dark as a polaroid. Hold it, and it begins to smoulder under your finger. Let go, and the fire takes it, spreading from the point you touched, over sixteen unhurried seconds. BY TIDE. Deep water, seen from above. Hold the memory, let go, and the water draws it down - the colour draining out of it, the edges softening as it goes past reach. When it has gone, the last of the air comes up and breaks the surface. BY SKY. A lantern hangs unlit under a full moon. Hold it to light it, let go, and it climbs for seventeen seconds until it is one warm star among the cold ones - then it gathers itself and comes apart. Every rite runs…