Memory is obscured, anonymous, and difficult in water/tongue because that has been my relationship to memory. Because of individual and collective pain, there is a loss/lack of documentation. There were no photo albums growing up and there were no real accounts that represented my own and my families’ experiences as I grew up in the U.S. I think this is why I rely so much on the intuitive and the felt. Just because things weren’t told to me or I didn’t read them in textbooks, doesn’t mean they don’t exist; doesn’t mean I don’t have memory of them in my body and (sub)consciousness; and doesn’t mean they don’t arrive within me and the world around me in other ways.
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