Return Concept
Presentating the concept of Return at Open Data Innovation Leeds for the Northernlands Data Summit, Leeds International Festival
McKoy, Jamaica
My brother in our Grand Aunt’s garden in McKoy, Clarendon. Our first time in Jamaica. Our parents first time returning since leaving as children some 50 years ago.
McKoy, Jamaica
My father returning to his childhood home, pictured here with his Aunt who still lives in a house down the road. We visit another Aunt with dementia and her face lights up on hearing that Cleveland has returned.
Cape Coast, Ghana
The 'Door of no return' Elmina's Castle, Cape Coast. The last sight Africans would have seen before being transported in ships to the America's and Caribbean. Boats would pull right up to this door giving no chance of escape.
Cape Coast, Ghana
Memorial Plaque at the entrance/ exit in Elmina's Castle. The guide asks where I am from and I say Jamaica. "Welcome home sister" he says.
New York, USA
African Burial Ground National Monument, Lower Manahattan, New York. The graves of approximately 15,000 African adults and children sit under Broadway. A major site where enslaved Africans buried their dead. The monument museum shows the remains of 419 Africans who were uncovered in 1991 and reburied with ancestral rites. Bone testing shows many of the deceased were born/ grew up in Africa.
New York, USA
Inscription from the African Burial Ground National Monument, Lower Manahattan, New York. This visit sparked my thoughts about creating a living monument that can shift in real time as our relationship and revelations about our history evlove.
Sheshamane, Ethiopia
Muse, the son of one of the original returnees to Ethopia from Jamaica. Many Rastafarians from the Caribbean returned to settle here in response to Haile Selassie's 1948 call to come home.
Sheshamane, Ethiopia
Ras Hailu Tefari, returned from St Vincent to reside in Sheshemane. We spent the afternoon at his gallery - the only Banana Leaf Art Gallery in the world.
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