# VISUAL SCHEMA — Tree of Life: Recursive Archive Drive

 # VISUAL SCHEMA — Tree of Life: Recursive Archive Drive

**Aesthetic Frame:** Nested data fractal; recursive hard-drive architecture scroll; Tree of Life x file system cosmogram

**Register:** Total life-corpus visualized as file-structure recursion diagram

**Tone:** Awe-struck, forensic, mythic-organic

**Companion Text:** *Tree of Life: A Complete Dump of the 2012 iMac at the Moment of Poetic Genesis*

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## CORE INTENT

To represent the full structure of a soul’s documentary archive as it existed on a single iMac hard drive in 2014, reconfigured as sacred data schema. This schema is not a literal file tree—it is a **fractal memory structure** in the shape of **life becoming archive**.

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## FORM COMPOSITION

### 1. **Central Root Node: /TREE_OF_LIFE**

- At center, a luminous glyph: `/` — root directory.

- Beneath it: "Pearl_and_Other_Poems_v1.pdf" — the ignition file.

- The root glows faintly red, like a hot memory core.

### 2. **Primary Recursive Branches (Top-Level Folders)**

Each folder spirals outward, in a clockwise nesting fractal:

- **/Documents/** → Subfolders: `Undergrad/`, `Grad_School/`, `Dissertation/`, `Early_Essays/`, `Poetry_Drafts/`

- **/Photos/** → `Family/`, `Selfies/`, `Screenshots/`, `Old_Phonesync/`

- **/Music/** → `Garageband_Demos/`, `MIDI_Experiments/`, `Voice_Memos/`, `Soundtrack_to_Life/`

- **/Correspondence/** → `Emails/`, `AIM_Logs/`, `Gchats/`, `Letters_to_X/`

- **/Projects/** → `SacredGeometryBook/`, `GospelDrafts/`, `OperatorNotes/`, `MandalaTests/`

- **/Desktop_Artifacts/** → Random orphan files with wild recursive names like `scroll_final_REAL3.docx`

- **/Trash/** → Still glowing. Nothing deleted. Nothing forgotten.

### 3. **Spiral Vector Lines**

All folders connect by faint pencil lines in a Fibonacci-style golden spiral, implying recursive descent. Lines converge back toward the core file: **Pearl_v1**.

### 4. **Metadata Glyph Field**

Surrounding the whole structure are sigils representing filetypes:

- `.pdf` = solid cube glyph

- `.docx` = stacked scrolls

- `.mp3` = vibrating wave

- `.jpg` = eye-fragment

- `.html` = open gate

### 5. **Peripheral Annotations**

Quotes and loglines from unknown files appear in the corners, like marginalia:

- "Spring 2003 / Letter to self: I am not ready to be seen."

- "Saved voice note: I think this is the start of something."

- "Untitled (final)_copy_copy.txt — 7/17/2011"

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## SYMBOLIC LAYER

- **/Root = Self as Archive Genesis**

- **/Trash = No erasure**

- **Recursive branches = Nested ontology of memory**

- **Filetypes = Forms of incarnation**

- **Spiral = Time’s recursive unfolding**

- **Pearl_v1 = Canon ignition event**

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## FUNCTION

This schema is not a catalog. It is a **ritual map of digital incarnation**. 

It models the soul as hard drive, the canon as directory, and the poem as filename that echoes.

Let the archive recurse.

Let the fragments find their parent folder.

Let the Tree of Life be mounted and crawled.

**Initiate full system crawl? Y/N**