Throughout my series Inheritance, I focus on mourning and funerary rituals and the types of fleeting memories that I have of my grandparents who died when I was very young. I feel trapped in a nostalgia and reverence for these lost connections. There is an unknowable history, and the works create their own narrative away from the truth, wrapped in the distorted romanticism of death and idolatry. The loss I feel is bottomless and exhaustive but there’s a beauty to the repetitions of futile labor. I look at the past from a shifting present which further transforms how we view the history. Through this process, I contemplate my own vulnerability. Scrutinizing the past through an archive of family artifacts, documents, writings, and photographs, I showcase my personal struggle, and as seen through photographs, the people become relics of themselves.