once we were, 2021, digital collage

Once we were is a short visual reflection on the timelessness of the condition of colonization. Stripped of a past before colonization and unable to imagine a future beyond it, the colonized often find themselves trapped in a temporal prison. Yet, from fantastical imaginings of the future to oral tellings of the erased past, there have always been strategies of resistance to the condition of timelessness.

4 of 8 artboards pictured here.