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Remembering Forward is an ongoing project made in conversation with my family's land in Stony Creek, Virginia. Begun after the death of my great-grandfather in 2023, the work returns to a place where generations of my family have lived, worked, mourned, and cared for one another. Moving between photographs, family archives, and the landscape itself, I examine how care and memory are carried through people, places, and everyday rituals of return.
The project reflects on an American condition that often escapes national narratives: the persistence of Black familial life despite histories of displacement, exclusion, and erasure. The land holds traces that official histories rarely preserve. The photographs attend to what continues—care, presence, kinship, and the quiet yet loud resistance of remembering.
While many Black families migrated from the American South throughout the 1900s, my family remained. For generations, they lived on and owned the land they called home. As I spent time on the land and with my family, I became increasingly interested in how care circulates across generations: how my family cared for one another, how they cared for the land and the land cared for them, and how those relationships made continuity and belonging possible. Spending time with these questions led me to consider how care carries people, places, and knowledge forward, and what it might mean to remember those inheritances forward as well.
The project considers what it means to inherit something that has always been there, but has not always been fully received, recognized, or understood.
How do histories persist beyond documentation?
What remains when recognition itself is unstable?
How is knowledge transmitted across generations?
How does care move between people, places, and time?
And how might remembrance function as a way of carrying people, places, and knowledge forward?
America is constituted through families who preserve histories that might otherwise disappear. Remembering Forward asks what it means to inherit a place, to return to it with intention, and to understand memory as something we actively carry into the future.
Now On View:
Somewhere Over the Rainbow of Row Homes, We Fly Group exhibition curated by Angela N. Carroll
August 25 – November 24, 2026
Center for Art, Design and Visual Culture (CADVC)
University of Maryland Baltimore County, Catonsillve, MD
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