Returns

Returns

I made this video work to honor the women in my family by reflecting their faces in water, which slowly slips through my hands. Their images—like memory, place, and time—dissolve as I try to hold them.

The morning before I presented this work, I dreamt of my aunt hosting a party in a lush, green garden. To my surprise, my grandmother was there, alive. She told me she had returned from the dead and was now going to live her life as she never had before. A woman whose life was transformed by exile, she now appeared radiant, healthy, and free. I want to give her a new life of recognition, not only for the hardships she endured, but for her strength, her tenderness, and her resilience.