Walking. Sharing. Offering. Reading. Watching.

My work has long been concerned with what persists beneath an erased surface, as in the yellow paint beneath the white paint in the Invisible Transformation Project. The Lost Village Project extends this concern to the landscape itself. What does this village remember? I am less interested in reconstructing what happened than in finding a present-tense way to stand, walk, and gather in places history has emptied out. Reflecting on Saidiya Hartman's concept of critical fabulation, storytelling as a means of entering historical trauma, I'm invested in ways to approach the archive "with and against" the violence it registers.

I’ve adapted various forms and formats as research methods for this project, such as gathering stories from archives (written and oral), walking, documenting, and hosting a picnic. This is a slow-process-based research project in which the visual works I’ve produced are not necessarily finished output but rather ever-growing studies of the villages and the memories they carry.