Like many of us, I never thought to ask my elders anything about their lives before I arrived on the scene. I was too busy taking up space in the world and had absolutely no curiosity about anything that came before me. It was only when it was too late that I suddenly had questions – and no one to give me answers.

Being the only child I have become the custodian of the family artifacts, trying to incorporate them and their stories into my life and my space.  Poring over old family photographs, staring at the faces from another lifetime, and handling the objects, I hear in my memory vague snippets of conversations.  And so I try to piece together the stories that were never told.

As part of a collage challenge I decided to create this using the materials from the project.