Buried Figures

Cool, damp clay coats the porcelain hands discovered deep within the garden soil; doll fragments gather thickly around specific root systems. Their arrangement hints not at chance but purposeful deposition across generations of plantings. The intervals between these collections correspond with documented periods of family upheaval—times when accounts suggest a deliberate obscuring of events, influencing what remained visible later. Such patterned concealment raises questions about how much control is exerted over the remembered past, and eventually, whether true balance can be found in layered narratives.