Description:

Recollection: A Curation of Memories reimagines the migrant experience through the eyes of Quiet – a girl whose name encapsulates the unspoken costs of starting anew. This artist’s book transforms childhood dislocation into a multisensory encounter with cultural memory. Through editorial design, the work visualises what assimilation erases:
• Fragmented narratives surface in handwritten marginalia and UV-concealed text
• Personal artefacts (a teacher’s “Too quiet” note, a creased passport photo) are reproduced with archival reverence
• Pre-colonial motifs emerge like ancestral whispers beneath contemporary imagery
The physical object performs cultural remembering:
• Paper weights shift as the story deepens, mirroring the growing weight of recovered history
• A detachable “memory bundle” contains meticulously reproduced childhood treasures
• Watermark-like tribal patterns reveal themselves only when backlit, echoing cultural memory’s latent presence
Beyond conventional publishing, this is a living counter-archive – one that privileges emotional truth over official migration narratives. For diaspora communities, it offers proof that what was quietly set aside might still be tenderly reclaimed.
By giving form to Quiet’s story, we honour all children who’ve had to forget in order to belong – and illuminate the possibility of remembering without regret.