Photo Credit: Nadia Refaei
Older than Language
This body of ceramics was an exercise in connecting with my inherent knowledge in order to make tangible things I have never seen. When there is no archival material that speaks to your family’s history and experience, can you simply construct the archive?
The ceramics are anachronic artefacts. Made with intuition and adorned with oral tradition. I hold and practice the knowledge of my ancestors. If this is true, the temporal curvature of the archive can be bent and reshaped. Bent and reshaped to corroborate these artefacts and to hold my family’s experience.