Archaeology allows us to uncover and learn from secrets from our past while the process of excavation is fragile with no clear boundaries. As layers are unearthed, the directionality of the strata of time can become confused, overlapping, fluid, susceptible to contextual shifts, gusts of wind, objects moved. From these clues a glimpse into a time forgotten appears and reminds us that we also need to excavate deep into our present selves, uncover our own secrets, and remember that we too are becoming future archaeologies. To integrate archaeology as a metaphor allows us to shine a spotlight on the now, then and yet to be, and positions us within this act of both layering and revealing. A humility comes with the unsettling of our truths, the upheaving of our sedimentary certainties and the reconfiguring we ask of our stories and mythologies.
