Echoes of the Ninth: A Griffeytown Visual and Oral Memoir Memorandum

In "Echoes of The Ninth", I question the narrative of Black History, along with the generational white nationalist rhetoric rooted in early American history. I propose questions like 'What is the wake?', 'What happens after the wake?', 'How do we honor those who were lost to the wake?', and 'When do we become woke?'. This work is in response to artists and writers like Christina Sharpe, Kara Walker, and Ian Weaver - part of an art collective known as Wake Work.

Through this interdisciplinary work, I investigate my ancestral link to Griffeytown and its community. I aim to create a performance tableau that invokes sensory perceptions to create new memories and expound upon the juxtaposition of history and memory. With the use of technology and assemblage techniques, objects in conjunction with images are used to tell the story of a forgotten town and its inhabitants, using my own oral family history.