In Memories from Yonder (2015), a diptych of digitally manipulated photographs, my mother re-enacts the oral narrative of Ebora Calder, a Guyanese immigrant from the Brooklyn Gardens Senior Center in the Bedford-Stuyvesant area of Brooklyn. In an intergenerational dialogue between the past and the present, I explore the disintegration of identity within processes of cultural assimilation. Memories from Yonder features the superimposition of corrupt film scans further exacerbated through digital experimentation in Adobe Photoshop. The process, a breakdown of resolution and reconfiguration of data, renders distortion–quasi-digital threading and noise–across the print’s surface. The gesture, in essence, functions as a symbolic weaving of two cultural spheres: the subjectivity(s) of Ebora, a Guyanese immigrant, and I, a first-generation Guyanese American. 

Memories from Yonder was produced through support from More Art (2015), Engaging Artist Residency. More Art Engaging Artists foster inter-generational exchange and diverse artistic perspectives on the challenges associated with aging and immigration in New York City.