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Memory Works, With All Their Love
Jia
Not My First Time—A Lesson
Gifts of the Mandarin Tree

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Nassau, Bahamas
Kanazawa, Japan                       𓄰

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Memory Works, With All Their Love series


Spring 2024

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Home is where one's heart is; mine exists to relive fleeting memories of my transnational identity and own kin to the diaspora. What it takes to understand, grieve, love, repair, and be. "Memory work" is a process, methodology, and anthropological recounting and reconstruction(s) of lived experiences to suggest new pasts, presents, and futures (Memory Work, 2020).

In 2018, my mother told me, "To practice love, I must find balance." Words I'd never thought to hear with past felt transmissions of generational trauma. I still find her threading, pulling, and stitching the seams of worn clothes with thread so thin. My commitment to love is steady: I find family archival photos and videos to relive diasporic experiences. This heals us. I've been mending these memories since I could understand how to weave.

"Memory Works, With All Their Love" scanned and compiled, this edition of 22 CYMK halftone prints with hand-sown acetate elements moves once-still family archival photos. These images are woven and compressed flat like the developed object, yet they find humanness in the remade- the grain, saturation, and imperfections..