Publisher's Synopsis
As a first-generation American, Keisha Scarville has spent much of her life crossing the globe to connect with family and to investigate the histories of her birthplace. Fascinated by these spatial movements, her approach to image-making has been led by enquiries into notions of belonging and identity and by seeking to visualise latent narratives which reside along the routes these inscribe. 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, reflecting a process of becoming, and embracing a confluence of images and emergent timelines. Accompanied by a text by poet and author Harmony Holiday
