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Memory Works, With All Their Love series




Spring 2024
Memory Works, With All Their Love, two, 2024: Halftone yellow, pink, blue, black screenprinting ink; archival family imagery; collage.



Memory Works, With All Their Love, one, 2024: Halftone yellow, pink, blue, black screenprinting ink; archival family imagery; collage.
 Home is where the heart is. And for me, it lives in the act of remembering. I return to fleeting memories of my transnational identity and the kinship I share with the diaspora. To understand, grieve, love, repair, and simply exist, this is what memory work demands. It is at once a process, a methodology, and a ritual of anthropological reconstruction that reshapes lived experiences to propose new pasts, presents, and futures (Memory Work, 2020).

In 2018, my mother told me, “To practice love, I must find balance.” It was something I never expected to hear, especially given the weight of generational trauma passed down through unspoken gestures. I still see her threading, pulling, and stitching worn garments, her needle guided by threads nearly invisible.

My commitment to love remains steady. I sift through family archives, old photos, and videos, using these technologies to reimagine the emotional landscapes shaped by diasporic histories. This is how we begin to heal. I’ve been mending and tending to our memories.

“Memory Works, With All Their Love” is a collection of 22 CMYK halftone prints, each embedded with hand-sewn acetate elements. These once-still archival family photographs are made to move, softened by grain, saturation, and imperfection. Though compressed and flattened like developed film, they carry the humanness of their remaking, woven anew through memory and love.