About the author
1991[?] — Began teaching at university level. (note: subject born later than this date)
2019 — Began construction of this site. At the time, described as "an experiment in non-linear meaning."
2021 — DATE OF DEPARTURE. Case file opened.
REDACTED — Will you find the recursion?
"All paths lead back. All paths lead forward.
These are the same path."
Jiang's work defied easy categorisation. She began as a structuralist — that was the cover, colleagues later said. What she was actually building, from the very beginning, was a proof. Not a mathematical proof, exactly. More like a proof of concept. More like a demonstration. More like a door.
She was known for long working hours, an unsettling memory for spatial details, and a habit of walking the same routes repeatedly testing corridors. She once told a graduate student: "A building is not the bricks. A building is the space inside the bricks. I study the space."
When she disappeared, her office was found in perfect order. Every paper filed. Every book shelved. As if she had been preparing to leave for a long time. The computer showed one open browser tab: this website. The session had not been closed.
She is still here, in the only way that matters.