Kids’ drawings on the fridge get replaced every month and saved forever in a box. Somebody keeps your early stuff too.

What feels disposable to whoever made it often gets kept by somebody else. The drawing came down after a month, but it went into a box in a closet with report cards and a school photo you would rather forget. Somewhere there is a small archive of you that you did not curate and do not control. Whoever keeps it saw something in your early, bad, unfinished work.

Ask the person most likely to have that box whether you can see it. Then start your own version and keep one thing from this year that shows what you were actually trying to do, even if it is not good.