Keisha Scarville has spent much of her life tracing routes of movement between
the Caribbean and America in order to investigate her own lineage. Attempting to
understand how notions of belonging and identity are formed and structured, her
image-making practice visualises the latent narratives inscribed within the
thresholds of memory across generations. This first publication by Scarville
unfolds as a sprawling, hypnotic visual essay, evocatively interweaving the
artist’s striking black-and-white photography with archival imagery, passages
from books, collages, personal texts, and film stills. Moving between practice
and archive, Scarville uses the form of the artist’s book to reflect on what it
means to create new genealogies by disrupting conventional, linear histories.
The result is a journey through a multiplicity of personal and historical
narratives of the Black diaspora. With this book, Scarville reflects on a
process of becoming shaped by the diasporic imagination of Black people
throughout the world. Accompanied by a text by poet and author Harmony Holiday
