<i>Correspondences</i>

<p dir="ltr">This image of research, 'Correspondence,' uses my examination of my family's archive to create a large-scale interdisciplinary artwork and poetry palimpsest. I have investigated the text that relates to the diasporic life after my family's escape, survival and loss in the Holocaust. I have scanned textual fragments and projected them onto a paper scroll to enable the retracing of selected passages. By enlarging and elevating the font, the text, and the specific turn of phrase that we see in this myriad of personal and bureaucratic archival materials, I'm intrigued by how these simple pieces of paper, hand-marked or typed, contain multiple layers of meaning and can end up being life and death, truth and despair. Through my artistic dialogue with the texts, I repeat, reorganise and rewrite lines drawn from the archive, creating multiple layers that form an image unto themselves and, at times, reach for the abyss. These are love letters, letters of concern and safety; sometimes, the letters intermingle until they become conversations with themselves. I made this piece using three letters from the archive, two relating to my grandparents' escape from Germany to South Africa and the other letter detailing the German Jewish story of my family.</p>