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"A project exploring the idea of memory in its various forms, intersected with the human relationship to water as conduit and vessel for those forms. In this project I photographed my older brother and grandfather, interviewing the latter about his life and our family history. The overarching ideas are inspired by the theory that water holds memory, and the poem “The Negro Speaks of Rivers” by Langston Hughes which makes the intergenerational connection between black people through reference to bodies of water. With the usage of such reference to contextualize the greater role of water …