Writing on Identity and Wealth.

A serious estate creates more records than ordinary life, and modern systems assemble them faster than any reasonable person would think to notice.

Identity, as the term is used here, is the version of a person the world recognises: a name, a face, an accumulated picture assembled across years from public mentions and incidental appearances.

Public records form the most stable, most reliably consulted part of a person's footprint.

The thinking behind the work: how exposure is read, what is coming next, and the principles of keeping a private life private over time.