Piece

the bearing of history

A piece is an object or fact that carries more weight than it shows.

Place

The Place that holds the piece at this moment. Not where it has been. Where it is.

Load Bearing

What collapses if the piece is removed.

Apparent

What the piece looks like from outside: the surface, the weight, the visible mark it leaves.

Yearbook

Everywhere the piece has been and everything it has done. The accumulated history that makes the load bearing invisible until it fails.

Place and Yearbook are the temporal frame. Load Bearing and Apparent are the structural pair. A piece file succeeds when the Yearbook is long enough that the Load Bearing is felt before it is named.