This environment incorporates layered sound. Headphones are recommended for optimal immersion.
Each section begins with a curated audio playlist, accessible via the bottom navigation bar.
All images used in this project are sourced from archival material. This site was designed for a 14-inch MacBook display.
If you encounter any resizing or formatting issues on your device, please feel free to contact me directly so I can address them.
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A Living Archive of Diasporic Memory
This project engages directly with the historical language, imagery, and ideologies of the early 20th century. Some materials include derogatory terms, racialized caricatures, and colonial rhetoric that reflect the prejudices and power structures of their time. These elements are presented here not to endorse, but to contextualize and critically examine the conditions that gave rise to the Negritude movement.
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Be the first to know when new acts premiere, rare materials surface, and the archive expands.
This is only a glimpse. The full experience unfolds soon.
Be the first to know when new acts premiere, rare materials surface, and the archive expands.
An immersive archive staged as an interactive game where the fractured memory and survival of Black intellectual life in Paris come into view.
An immersive archive staged as an interactive game where the fractured memory and survival of Black intellectual life in Paris come into view.
An immersive archive staged as an interactive game where the fractured memory and survival of Black intellectual life in Paris come into view.
A Living Archive of Diasporic Memory
A Living Archive of Diasporic Memory
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A Living Archive of Diasporic Memory began with fragments. Pages that carried breath. Sounds that remembered where they came from. It carries the stories of our thinkers, our artists, our ancestors across language, geography, and time. What began as research became a return, a commitment to gather what was scattered and bring it home.
Each image, sound, and word carries the weight of someone’s hands. The work became less about finding what was missing and more about attending to what remains—the cracked edges, the unfinished notes, the echoes that refuse silence.
I built this space to see what remembering could sound like. It is not preservation but continuity, the quiet work of keeping what was never meant to disappear.
A Living Archive of Diasporic Memory traces the lives and legacies of thinkers, artists, and ancestors who shaped and were shaped by the Négritude movement, examining how their ideas moved across language, geography, and time.
Grounded in archival and field research, the project explores how systems of record-keeping, translation, and representation have contributed to both the preservation and erasure of diasporic memory. Rather than reproducing the form of a traditional archive, it approaches design as a method of remembering—one that makes space for multiplicity, care, and interpretation.
Each image, sound, and text operates as both evidence and encounter, reflecting the labor, context, and endurance embedded within diasporic histories. Over time, the work has shifted from recovery to maintenance—focusing less on what has been lost and more on what continues to endure through fragments, traces, and repetition.
Ultimately, the archive proposes continuity as an alternative to preservation, framing remembrance not as a static act but as an ongoing process of engagement with histories that remain alive.
A Living Archive of Diasporic Memory traces the lives and legacies of thinkers, artists, and ancestors who shaped and were shaped by the Négritude movement, examining how their ideas moved across language, geography, and time.
Grounded in archival and field research, the project explores how systems of record-keeping, translation, and representation have contributed to both the preservation and erasure of diasporic memory. Rather than reproducing the form of a traditional archive, it approaches design as a method of remembering—one that makes space for multiplicity, care, and interpretation.
Each image, sound, and text operates as both evidence and encounter, reflecting the labor, context, and endurance embedded within diasporic histories. Over time, the work has shifted from recovery to maintenance—focusing less on what has been lost and more on what continues to endure through fragments, traces, and repetition.
Ultimately, the archive proposes continuity as an alternative to preservation, framing remembrance not as a static act but as an ongoing process of engagement with histories that remain alive.
In Brief
In Brief