Dawlin

Historical trauma is unresolved grief affecting the future generations of those in the past

that suffered violent, discriminatory, and ongoing forms and systems of oppression.

Ignored, mistreated by American society and left buried deeply beneath fading water

lines of flooded cities, in the case of the black side of my family, New Orleans. Exploring

my family's archives through photographs, once personal belongings, recipes, hearsay,

and culture, through the typecast practice of voodoo. The rituals are spoken into the

making process left sacred to myself, the sacrifices built into my materials, the physical

objects left in the wake transforming into altars. This is my phone call to home, a chance

to converse about the present and consoling our lasting grief and starting a new cycle.