That Meal Never Ended — The Memory Survived, But the System Didn't

Inside a coffin facing the sea, a cafeteria flickers—distorted, incomplete, and not entirely real. It is not the one from my high school, but it holds the echo of a campus now gone, and traces of a system that no longer exists, but continues to live in memory. The coffin rests in a cemetery, but inside, memory resists burial. This is not a reconstruction. It’s a soft resistance. A meal that refuses to end. SOUND SOURCE: Raymonster. 2011. Low rumble.wav. Freesound. October 5, 2011. https://freesound.org/people/raymonster/sounds/134779/ Kfargo22. 2018. Eerie distant scream.wav. Freesound. July 7, 2018. https://freesound.org/people/kfargo22/sounds/417196/ Benboncan. 2009. Thunder_Clap_1.wav. Freesound. December 1, 2009. https://freesound.org/people/Benboncan/sounds/67883/ CapCut. (n.d.). AI voiceover “Xiaobajiang” “Energetic Male” [Synthetic voice]. ByteDance. https://www.capcut.com/ STYLY project cover image: OpenAI. (2025). AI-generated image created using ChatGPT. https://chat.openai.com/