Some of my earliest memories of objects come from cupboards. Folded textiles wrapped carefully in old fabric, imitation jewellery tucked into plastic boxes, brass utensils brought out during festivals, fading family photographs sitting beside framed gods, these objects were never presented to me as “history”, yet they carried histories within them. Long before I formally studied photography or became interested in archives, I think I already understood that objects could hold memory.
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