A Daily Memorial
A Daily Memorial
Archival prints on paper
30 x 40 cm
I took everyone who came to visit me here to watch the sunset. When I was sitting with my brother at this spot, he said, ‘What a loaded sunset.’ When I arrived in Sweden, I reflected on my time at this spot. Over the course of six months, I photographed the sunset from the edge of the island, looking out toward the sea. I realized, in retrospect, that I had unintentionally created an archive.
This became a series of dozens of sunset photos taken in Samaná, Dominican Republic. They are reflections on the weight of a sunset in a landscape that was once home to both the first indigenous resistance to Columbus and the vision of a free Black island during the unification of Haiti and the Dominican Republic. Today, the region is undergoing rapid gentrification by foreign investors in the tourism industry.
Seven prints from this series were acquired by St. Göran’s Hospital’s Psychiatric Department in Stockholm, Sweden.