Remembering Forward is an ongoing project, begun in 2023, examining how memory, inheritance, and care are carried across generations. In converstaion with my family's relationship to land in Stony Creek, Virginia, the work emerged from questions I have carried for much of my life—questions about family, place, continuity, and what remains present beyond what can be documented or easily explained.

At the time, I did not know what to do other than continue asking questions.

While many Black families migrated from the American South throughout the  1900s, my family remained. For generations, they lived on and owned the land they called home. As I spent time on the land and with my family, I became increasingly interested in how care circulates across generations: how my family cared for one another, how they cared for the land and the land cared for them, and how those relationships made continuity and belonging possible. Spending time with these questions led me to consider how care carries people, places, and knowledge forward, and what it might mean to remember those inheritances forward as well.

The project considers what it means to inherit something that has always been there, but has not always been fully received, recognized, or understood.

How do histories persist beyond documentation?
What remains when recognition itself is unstable?
How is knowledge transmitted across generations?
How does care move between people, places, and time?
And how might remembrance function as a way of carrying people, places, and knowledge forward?