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Rememory, 2025. Digital. 65.58 x 34.07
Toni Morrison refers to “rememory” as “recollecting and remembering
as in reassembling the members of the body, the family,
the population of the past.” I titled my thesis Rememory as a
means to guide my exploration of epistemologies outside of
Western hegemonic knowledge systems. Rememory explores
cultural identity and my ancestral calling to learn about and
experience my cultural heritage.
In my thesis, I examine the representational capacity
of fabric beyond its functionality and ties to human capital and
consider fabric as a space to hold both memory and experiences.
Through this process, I take a creative lens to break down
colonial and capitalist frameworks and regard fabric as a source
for creative pedagogy.
Rememory represents the exercise of seeking out
memories, experiences, and practices I believe should belong to
me. In so doing, this project acts as a digital archive, designed to
document and explore both my intimate relationship with fabric
as well as my experiences with female figures who hold generational
knowledge of fabric usage.