My Grandmother’s Album is a rumination on my grandmother’s family albums as an alternative and feminist archive. As I spent a summer with these albums, repairing their peeling photo corners and poring over their contents, they inspired me as being quietly anarchic and subversive of that “imagery of succession, of paternity, or hierarchy” that Edward Said ascribes to the conventional (and masculine) literary text in Beginnings: Intention and Method. From her albums, I extracted a grammar of loss and assertion through private silences and excesses, repetitions and accents.
