Projection Timeline

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Projection Timeline overlays footage of my grandmother from a Philadelphia Inquirer video with a broader history of the Atlantic Slave Trade, housing discrimination, migration, and displacement in the United States. On the right side, my family’s own history unfolds alongside these larger historical forces, connecting intimate memory to structural violence.

The work traces how Black families move through histories that are both personal and national. My grandmother’s presence grounds the piece in lived experience, while the historical references reveal how policies of redlining, urban renewal, segregation, and dispossession continue to shape family trajectories across generations. The overlay collapses distinctions between archive and autobiography, showing how national histories are carried within individual lives and bodies.