Caballero invited various artists to hand-annotate Training Data, engaging in an act of analog generativity—the notion that readers and writers construct each other in an endlessly procreative exchange. The coexistence of analog marginalia and digital presentation reflects how memory is presently archived, through experience and code.
By visualizing multiple encounters with a single poem, Caballero illuminates the evolving life of a text, forever shaped by interpretation, time and context.
The tension between private and public memory drives Caballero’s literary practice, who believes we access the universal through the personal and the transcendental through the mundane. This same tension propels The Years, French Nobel Laureate Annie Ernaux’s monumental act of collective remembrance, to whom Caballero dedicates the poem.