The “witness archive” gathers voices over time. I invite you to record memories, reflections, or stories connected to ancestors, family histories, or moments of care and labor that shaped your life. These recordings become part of a growing archive that travels with the piece and continues to expand wherever it is shared.
***scroll down to record & listen***
oil painting, collage on wood, sewing, transfer, audience participation: recorded audio stories
18″ x 18″ x 36″
witness is an ongoing project that explores testimony, memory, and the act of being heard. Through recorded stories, listening , and participatory encounters, the work creates space for individuals to share experiences that might otherwise remain unseen or unspoken. Personal narratives function as forms of knowledge and listening itself can become an act of care. The project invites reflection on whose stories are preserved, whose voices are amplified, and how collective memory is shaped through acts of telling and witnessing that connects individual experience to broader histories of belonging, loss, resilience, and survival.
1- Record your story to the archive here:
2- Fill out the form:
3- Listen to the archive here:
***the archive will go live with recordings from my show “kept + carried“, which opens at ARC Gallery in Chicago beginning September 3, 2026***
