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https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/653aa9575e0edc0b13ec0efd/3ae04a0f-45b8-4313-b65f-31c6a79ef501/memwit3.jpeg Creative Practice: Processes "Running blindly we finally reached the marshes." https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/653aa9575e0edc0b13ec0efd/cf63cb31-5b23-4c40-9d59-4bfeb822ea6b/3.botanical-amarilys-1_orig.jpeg Creative Practice: Processes Digital photograph printed on bamboo paper. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/653aa9575e0edc0b13ec0efd/c537896f-e4c2-437e-867a-886d0769dcab/memwit4.jpeg Creative Practice: Processes "Understand this: the genocide will not fade from our minds. Time will hold on to the memories, it will never spare more than a tiny place for the solace of the soul." https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/653aa9575e0edc0b13ec0efd/b67f64c5-dbd6-4839-9c3e-278acb6bbdc9/memwit5.jpeg Creative Practice: Processes "Cut down in their prime" https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/653aa9575e0edc0b13ec0efd/b21d1be9-6a98-48a8-b2b4-f3ee499fe2c3/memwit6.jpeg Creative Practice: Processes "Redemption" https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/653aa9575e0edc0b13ec0efd/ff848d2d-a4d6-4477-afd2-b0c1658916b2/memwit7.jpeg Creative Practice: Processes "It's a project that's meticulously planned and properly carried out." https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/653aa9575e0edc0b13ec0efd/0daf68fd-d509-46da-a43c-bb6f06c470fb/sonya-de-laat-canada-forsythia-spring-2023_orig.jpg Creative Practice: Processes Cyanotype of spring forsythia. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/653aa9575e0edc0b13ec0efd/9ad3c163-c2ca-46a3-9b35-00bbda21a013/5.tea-toned-cyanotype-forsythia_orig.jpeg Creative Practice: Processes Cyanotype of spring forsythia, toned in green tea. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/653aa9575e0edc0b13ec0efd/f7c0dac3-b880-40d9-a7ff-210042366b56/4.botanical-amarylis-2-copy_orig.jpeg Creative Practice: Processes Digital photograph printed on bamboo paper. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/653aa9575e0edc0b13ec0efd/58977d4f-7e4c-46b9-bbb1-6420e96ea4d8/7.phylodendron-negative-april2023_orig.jpeg Creative Practice: Processes https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/653aa9575e0edc0b13ec0efd/abacf2ff-b3ae-4f78-8822-b18b547fcfaf/8.sx70-rbg-agave156-29april2023_orig.png Creative Practice: Processes Polaroid 690 — Agave https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/653aa9575e0edc0b13ec0efd/b34642f4-7244-4051-8731-7d6e41ebdc40/9.-sdelaat-findingcreativity-003_orig.jpeg Creative Practice: Processes https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/653aa9575e0edc0b13ec0efd/3a07d235-2057-461c-979c-219793b3578a/a4171924_orig.jpeg Creative Practice: Processes "Mille collines, mille colliques...every hill is a bad memory." In making small-talk banter with a survivor about the aesthetic beauty of the Rwandan landscape, his response to me was that each hill represents sadness and horror. Memories , both good and bad, are in the landscapes. The more we scratch beneath the surface of its beauty, the more we can learn about the human condition and our experiences within it. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/653aa9575e0edc0b13ec0efd/36a2011f-747e-460e-87ff-a3aeb585d7b0/b.jpeg Creative Practice: Processes "I feel at home here." Under these trees, for nearly the full length of time that this area was defended by genocide resistance fighters, survivors from that group camp here to commemorate the nearly 50,000 people who were killed in this area. Many survivors don't know where the remains of their loved ones are, thus places like this, a mass grave site, become familial places of homecoming and comfort. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/653aa9575e0edc0b13ec0efd/b5d7e2d5-11e1-4787-b418-06f8d699a6b8/c.jpeg Creative Practice: Processes "I will always tremble whenever I hear voices raised among the leaves of the banana groves". Running and hiding within the different vegetation in the Rwandan landscape was often the only means of survival. Though this image could just as well be used today for tourist brochures or social/environmental campaigns, for survivors of the Rwandan genocide, this image is a reminder of the animalistic existence they endured to save their lives, and how far they have come since then. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/653aa9575e0edc0b13ec0efd/7a494e60-5f52-44e7-82ea-8230a2ce5c0e/d.jpeg Creative Practice: Processes "I'm so afraid of meeting my memories...we breathed deeply of death." https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/653aa9575e0edc0b13ec0efd/ee61075a-401a-4cc1-939c-0fee2a32bd43/e.jpeg Creative Practice: Processes "Running blindly, we finally reached the marshes." For nearly a month, she and about 1000 others hid in the wet papyrus marsh pictured behind her. Only about 50 people survived. Though she lost so many loved ones in that time and in the period of instability following the end of the genocide, she is still a matriarch, community leader, farmer and generous human being. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/653aa9575e0edc0b13ec0efd/10b683ae-aa4c-477f-8a38-2852f44db63a/f.jpeg Creative Practice: Processes "Redemption." After having watched the murder of his parents, losing other family members, and spending the remainder of the genocide running and hiding from the Interahamwe, this survivor retuned to school, built a home, started a family, and teaches about the genocide. The home is not a symbol of 'moving on' from the past, but is rather about making the present the best in can be in honour of his family members killed in 1994. https://www.sonyadelaat.com/creative-practice-people daily 0.75 2023-12-18 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/653aa9575e0edc0b13ec0efd/65146d91-7b06-43e8-b9c2-30be13e5132f/memwit1.jpeg https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/653aa9575e0edc0b13ec0efd/262f1f85-d634-4d55-93a5-c7a864c65729/memwit12.jpeg Creative Practice: People "Mille collines, mille colliques... every hill is a bad memory." https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/653aa9575e0edc0b13ec0efd/e0ec9b2e-74cb-4c09-a3a1-23ea320bfc8b/pcr-refcam-04_orig.jpg Creative Practice: People https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/653aa9575e0edc0b13ec0efd/3ae04a0f-45b8-4313-b65f-31c6a79ef501/memwit3.jpeg Creative Practice: People "Running blindly we finally reached the marshes." https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/653aa9575e0edc0b13ec0efd/4d44ee0e-d5f9-42af-a640-f374bb231e40/pcr-refcam-05_orig.png Creative Practice: People https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/653aa9575e0edc0b13ec0efd/c537896f-e4c2-437e-867a-886d0769dcab/memwit4.jpeg Creative Practice: People "Understand this: the genocide will not fade from our minds. Time will hold on to the memories, it will never spare more than a tiny place for the solace of the soul." https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/653aa9575e0edc0b13ec0efd/263ccbfa-7378-4344-a1b8-f81bdc0267e5/pcr-refcam-06_orig.png Creative Practice: People https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/653aa9575e0edc0b13ec0efd/b67f64c5-dbd6-4839-9c3e-278acb6bbdc9/memwit5.jpeg Creative Practice: People "Cut down in their prime" https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/653aa9575e0edc0b13ec0efd/269647ff-935d-4cda-8d39-552120e6ce0f/pcr-refcam-08_orig.jpg Creative Practice: People https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/653aa9575e0edc0b13ec0efd/b21d1be9-6a98-48a8-b2b4-f3ee499fe2c3/memwit6.jpeg Creative Practice: People "Redemption" https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/653aa9575e0edc0b13ec0efd/4fa37d9d-0769-47c0-b3d3-4d1ac9ad1935/pcr-refcam-09_orig.png Creative Practice: People https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/653aa9575e0edc0b13ec0efd/ff848d2d-a4d6-4477-afd2-b0c1658916b2/memwit7.jpeg Creative Practice: People "It's a project that's meticulously planned and properly carried out." https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/653aa9575e0edc0b13ec0efd/e0e38183-9b3a-4f27-b4af-021662956c7d/pcr-refcam-01-b_orig.jpg Creative Practice: People https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/653aa9575e0edc0b13ec0efd/355d3a83-c936-44e6-bccb-ff6281f2257d/pcr-refcam-03_orig.jpg Creative Practice: People https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/653aa9575e0edc0b13ec0efd/3a07d235-2057-461c-979c-219793b3578a/a4171924_orig.jpeg Creative Practice: People "Mille collines, mille colliques...every hill is a bad memory." In making small-talk banter with a survivor about the aesthetic beauty of the Rwandan landscape, his response to me was that each hill represents sadness and horror. Memories , both good and bad, are in the landscapes. The more we scratch beneath the surface of its beauty, the more we can learn about the human condition and our experiences within it. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/653aa9575e0edc0b13ec0efd/36a2011f-747e-460e-87ff-a3aeb585d7b0/b.jpeg Creative Practice: People "I feel at home here." Under these trees, for nearly the full length of time that this area was defended by genocide resistance fighters, survivors from that group camp here to commemorate the nearly 50,000 people who were killed in this area. Many survivors don't know where the remains of their loved ones are, thus places like this, a mass grave site, become familial places of homecoming and comfort. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/653aa9575e0edc0b13ec0efd/b5d7e2d5-11e1-4787-b418-06f8d699a6b8/c.jpeg Creative Practice: People "I will always tremble whenever I hear voices raised among the leaves of the banana groves". Running and hiding within the different vegetation in the Rwandan landscape was often the only means of survival. Though this image could just as well be used today for tourist brochures or social/environmental campaigns, for survivors of the Rwandan genocide, this image is a reminder of the animalistic existence they endured to save their lives, and how far they have come since then. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/653aa9575e0edc0b13ec0efd/7a494e60-5f52-44e7-82ea-8230a2ce5c0e/d.jpeg Creative Practice: People "I'm so afraid of meeting my memories...we breathed deeply of death." https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/653aa9575e0edc0b13ec0efd/ee61075a-401a-4cc1-939c-0fee2a32bd43/e.jpeg Creative Practice: People "Running blindly, we finally reached the marshes." For nearly a month, she and about 1000 others hid in the wet papyrus marsh pictured behind her. Only about 50 people survived. Though she lost so many loved ones in that time and in the period of instability following the end of the genocide, she is still a matriarch, community leader, farmer and generous human being. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/653aa9575e0edc0b13ec0efd/10b683ae-aa4c-477f-8a38-2852f44db63a/f.jpeg Creative Practice: People "Redemption." After having watched the murder of his parents, losing other family members, and spending the remainder of the genocide running and hiding from the Interahamwe, this survivor retuned to school, built a home, started a family, and teaches about the genocide. The home is not a symbol of 'moving on' from the past, but is rather about making the present the best in can be in honour of his family members killed in 1994. https://www.sonyadelaat.com/creative-practice-places daily 0.75 2023-12-18 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/653aa9575e0edc0b13ec0efd/65146d91-7b06-43e8-b9c2-30be13e5132f/memwit1.jpeg https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/653aa9575e0edc0b13ec0efd/262f1f85-d634-4d55-93a5-c7a864c65729/memwit12.jpeg Creative Practice: Places "Mille collines, mille colliques... every hill is a bad memory." https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/653aa9575e0edc0b13ec0efd/1b554678-b192-4984-849c-6fbb38b1bd5f/1456778904.png Creative Practice: Places Selfie Stop Kigali, Rwanda, 2015 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/653aa9575e0edc0b13ec0efd/3ae04a0f-45b8-4313-b65f-31c6a79ef501/memwit3.jpeg Creative Practice: Places "Running blindly we finally reached the marshes." https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/653aa9575e0edc0b13ec0efd/4802fb18-7434-4a98-99be-6048d7a19e61/8711065.jpg Creative Practice: Places Downtown Kigali, Rwanda, 2015 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/653aa9575e0edc0b13ec0efd/c537896f-e4c2-437e-867a-886d0769dcab/memwit4.jpeg Creative Practice: Places "Understand this: the genocide will not fade from our minds. Time will hold on to the memories, it will never spare more than a tiny place for the solace of the soul." https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/653aa9575e0edc0b13ec0efd/88bc25c7-dd3a-4977-80aa-1ccaeeec30b2/7490121.jpg Creative Practice: Places Tigo Good Life, Rwanda, 2015 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/653aa9575e0edc0b13ec0efd/b67f64c5-dbd6-4839-9c3e-278acb6bbdc9/memwit5.jpeg Creative Practice: Places "Cut down in their prime" https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/653aa9575e0edc0b13ec0efd/df787189-927e-4b92-a2f3-a477e2c35755/1691483_orig.jpg Creative Practice: Places Suburban Kigali, Rwanda, 2015 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/653aa9575e0edc0b13ec0efd/b21d1be9-6a98-48a8-b2b4-f3ee499fe2c3/memwit6.jpeg Creative Practice: Places "Redemption" https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/653aa9575e0edc0b13ec0efd/ff848d2d-a4d6-4477-afd2-b0c1658916b2/memwit7.jpeg Creative Practice: Places "It's a project that's meticulously planned and properly carried out." https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/653aa9575e0edc0b13ec0efd/3a07d235-2057-461c-979c-219793b3578a/a4171924_orig.jpeg Creative Practice: Places "Mille collines, mille colliques...every hill is a bad memory." In making small-talk banter with a survivor about the aesthetic beauty of the Rwandan landscape, his response to me was that each hill represents sadness and horror. Memories , both good and bad, are in the landscapes. The more we scratch beneath the surface of its beauty, the more we can learn about the human condition and our experiences within it. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/653aa9575e0edc0b13ec0efd/36a2011f-747e-460e-87ff-a3aeb585d7b0/b.jpeg Creative Practice: Places "I feel at home here." Under these trees, for nearly the full length of time that this area was defended by genocide resistance fighters, survivors from that group camp here to commemorate the nearly 50,000 people who were killed in this area. Many survivors don't know where the remains of their loved ones are, thus places like this, a mass grave site, become familial places of homecoming and comfort. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/653aa9575e0edc0b13ec0efd/b5d7e2d5-11e1-4787-b418-06f8d699a6b8/c.jpeg Creative Practice: Places "I will always tremble whenever I hear voices raised among the leaves of the banana groves". Running and hiding within the different vegetation in the Rwandan landscape was often the only means of survival. Though this image could just as well be used today for tourist brochures or social/environmental campaigns, for survivors of the Rwandan genocide, this image is a reminder of the animalistic existence they endured to save their lives, and how far they have come since then. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/653aa9575e0edc0b13ec0efd/7a494e60-5f52-44e7-82ea-8230a2ce5c0e/d.jpeg Creative Practice: Places "I'm so afraid of meeting my memories...we breathed deeply of death." https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/653aa9575e0edc0b13ec0efd/ee61075a-401a-4cc1-939c-0fee2a32bd43/e.jpeg Creative Practice: Places "Running blindly, we finally reached the marshes." For nearly a month, she and about 1000 others hid in the wet papyrus marsh pictured behind her. Only about 50 people survived. Though she lost so many loved ones in that time and in the period of instability following the end of the genocide, she is still a matriarch, community leader, farmer and generous human being. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/653aa9575e0edc0b13ec0efd/10b683ae-aa4c-477f-8a38-2852f44db63a/f.jpeg Creative Practice: Places "Redemption." After having watched the murder of his parents, losing other family members, and spending the remainder of the genocide running and hiding from the Interahamwe, this survivor retuned to school, built a home, started a family, and teaches about the genocide. The home is not a symbol of 'moving on' from the past, but is rather about making the present the best in can be in honour of his family members killed in 1994. https://www.sonyadelaat.com/creative-practice-plants daily 0.75 2024-01-22 https://www.sonyadelaat.com/creative-practice daily 0.75 2024-02-13 https://www.sonyadelaat.com/creative-practice/people monthly 0.5 2024-01-24 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/653aa9575e0edc0b13ec0efd/e0ec9b2e-74cb-4c09-a3a1-23ea320bfc8b/pcr-refcam-04_orig.jpg Creative Practice - People https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/653aa9575e0edc0b13ec0efd/1b554678-b192-4984-849c-6fbb38b1bd5f/1456778904.png Creative Practice - People https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/653aa9575e0edc0b13ec0efd/4d44ee0e-d5f9-42af-a640-f374bb231e40/pcr-refcam-05_orig.png Creative Practice - People https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/653aa9575e0edc0b13ec0efd/1702929725354-6UOF9M4237Q16LL7LOKT/Moto_Taxi_Rwanda_2015.jpg Creative Practice - People https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/653aa9575e0edc0b13ec0efd/263ccbfa-7378-4344-a1b8-f81bdc0267e5/pcr-refcam-06_orig.png Creative Practice - 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Places "Mille collines, mille colliques... every hill is a bad memory." https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/653aa9575e0edc0b13ec0efd/ef57802c-f794-46fa-96da-55bd3767f5c7/IMG_6336.jpeg Creative Practice - Places https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/653aa9575e0edc0b13ec0efd/5d3bfec8-1752-4432-a39f-d757ff7b640d/2B63559D-AD94-42B0-970A-F5B4E335392E.jpg Creative Practice - Places https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/653aa9575e0edc0b13ec0efd/1702929761261-Q5Z3WBI9XSP4KUYFPMVU/Commuter+Series+211.jpg Creative Practice - Places https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/653aa9575e0edc0b13ec0efd/b565b057-8abc-4ff8-acb8-111d7a7cb784/2018-08-21+19.07.52.jpg Creative Practice - Places https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/653aa9575e0edc0b13ec0efd/3ae04a0f-45b8-4313-b65f-31c6a79ef501/memwit3.jpeg Creative Practice - Places "Running blindly we finally reached the marshes." https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/653aa9575e0edc0b13ec0efd/30dd1fb5-3763-403d-b6df-3d416ffd3829/1E23E3FA-62DF-40BB-B327-D70CBC1F9CEC.jpg Creative Practice - Places https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/653aa9575e0edc0b13ec0efd/a33c0904-59de-4a1d-9ca1-7efaca78ca30/3B513E48-0015-4563-94A1-B505AA225C0A.jpg Creative Practice - Places https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/653aa9575e0edc0b13ec0efd/df787189-927e-4b92-a2f3-a477e2c35755/1691483_orig.jpg Creative Practice - Places https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/653aa9575e0edc0b13ec0efd/c537896f-e4c2-437e-867a-886d0769dcab/memwit4.jpeg Creative Practice - Places "Understand this: the genocide will not fade from our minds. Time will hold on to the memories, it will never spare more than a tiny place for the solace of the soul." https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/653aa9575e0edc0b13ec0efd/ed80aeb9-8dd0-4a8d-80de-5f5915350295/3CD0B784-2FA6-43C6-927A-617F6FC401F2.jpg Creative Practice - Places https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/653aa9575e0edc0b13ec0efd/d298319b-62d3-4da7-9b4a-d8927b98c0a5/deLaat_CommuterSeries320_DigitalPhotography_8x10_75.jpg Creative Practice - Places https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/653aa9575e0edc0b13ec0efd/1706977240752-J98GTWNDXMB6CKIPX9XO/2018-08-13%2B13.10.15%2BHDR.jpg Creative Practice - Places https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/653aa9575e0edc0b13ec0efd/b67f64c5-dbd6-4839-9c3e-278acb6bbdc9/memwit5.jpeg Creative Practice - Places "Cut down in their prime" https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/653aa9575e0edc0b13ec0efd/5540cb79-d9bb-462c-ad28-121b1ae50b60/65C59110-A57E-4AFA-B098-BC2A62FE497B.jpg Creative Practice - Places https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/653aa9575e0edc0b13ec0efd/edaf1f9e-34c5-4fdc-b85b-ea2738ea7452/IMG_6247.jpeg Creative Practice - Places https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/653aa9575e0edc0b13ec0efd/4802fb18-7434-4a98-99be-6048d7a19e61/8711065.jpg Creative Practice - Places https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/653aa9575e0edc0b13ec0efd/b21d1be9-6a98-48a8-b2b4-f3ee499fe2c3/memwit6.jpeg Creative Practice - Places "Redemption" https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/653aa9575e0edc0b13ec0efd/32b28c0f-dc5d-47bd-a0ec-e6e2f3b358dd/IMG_6252.jpeg Creative Practice - Places https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/653aa9575e0edc0b13ec0efd/b34642f4-7244-4051-8731-7d6e41ebdc40/9.-sdelaat-findingcreativity-003_orig.jpeg Creative Practice - Places https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/653aa9575e0edc0b13ec0efd/3ef5b4d9-1719-42d1-97aa-09068ccd3a58/2018-08-21+14.48.23+HDR.jpg Creative Practice - Places https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/653aa9575e0edc0b13ec0efd/ff848d2d-a4d6-4477-afd2-b0c1658916b2/memwit7.jpeg Creative Practice - Places "It's a project that's meticulously planned and properly carried out." https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/653aa9575e0edc0b13ec0efd/88bc25c7-dd3a-4977-80aa-1ccaeeec30b2/7490121.jpg Creative Practice - Places https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/653aa9575e0edc0b13ec0efd/087896bb-86e3-4c8a-a59b-3843c2b57aac/2018-08-21+19.08.17.jpg Creative Practice - Places https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/653aa9575e0edc0b13ec0efd/22eb0068-8b4f-4e37-ade3-7a2197dbd3d6/2019-07-07+13.27.47.jpg Creative Practice - Places https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/653aa9575e0edc0b13ec0efd/7f396c90-70ec-4b66-9d74-81fbecb33c11/2018-08-13+13.05.41.jpg Creative Practice - Places https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/653aa9575e0edc0b13ec0efd/c78e70f3-b51d-47d2-a8b3-6c670b3494e3/2019-10-06+15.58.34.jpg Creative Practice - Places https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/653aa9575e0edc0b13ec0efd/e4e88015-38ce-4787-9e23-c12d3dbb5857/2019-07-07+13.01.35.jpg Creative Practice - Places https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/653aa9575e0edc0b13ec0efd/2fd29da1-99ca-46c3-9b93-e6739f3601ab/6DC03EC3-0180-4BF2-8FF3-12A253E7BEB5.jpg Creative Practice - Places https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/653aa9575e0edc0b13ec0efd/712fc3f6-dc9d-49bf-ba04-46ebd656c017/Domestic_42_2022.jpg Creative Practice - Places https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/653aa9575e0edc0b13ec0efd/ab23e832-00e3-48d4-91ff-3ecff05806e2/IMG_6343.jpeg Creative Practice - Places https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/653aa9575e0edc0b13ec0efd/4400b309-a612-4a0c-9ada-030c59e130c8/IMG_6361.jpeg Creative Practice - Places https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/653aa9575e0edc0b13ec0efd/3a07d235-2057-461c-979c-219793b3578a/a4171924_orig.jpeg Creative Practice - Places "Mille collines, mille colliques...every hill is a bad memory." In making small-talk banter with a survivor about the aesthetic beauty of the Rwandan landscape, his response to me was that each hill represents sadness and horror. Memories , both good and bad, are in the landscapes. The more we scratch beneath the surface of its beauty, the more we can learn about the human condition and our experiences within it. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/653aa9575e0edc0b13ec0efd/36a2011f-747e-460e-87ff-a3aeb585d7b0/b.jpeg Creative Practice - Places "I feel at home here." Under these trees, for nearly the full length of time that this area was defended by genocide resistance fighters, survivors from that group camp here to commemorate the nearly 50,000 people who were killed in this area. Many survivors don't know where the remains of their loved ones are, thus places like this, a mass grave site, become familial places of homecoming and comfort. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/653aa9575e0edc0b13ec0efd/b5d7e2d5-11e1-4787-b418-06f8d699a6b8/c.jpeg Creative Practice - Places "I will always tremble whenever I hear voices raised among the leaves of the banana groves". Running and hiding within the different vegetation in the Rwandan landscape was often the only means of survival. Though this image could just as well be used today for tourist brochures or social/environmental campaigns, for survivors of the Rwandan genocide, this image is a reminder of the animalistic existence they endured to save their lives, and how far they have come since then. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/653aa9575e0edc0b13ec0efd/7a494e60-5f52-44e7-82ea-8230a2ce5c0e/d.jpeg Creative Practice - Places "I'm so afraid of meeting my memories...we breathed deeply of death." https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/653aa9575e0edc0b13ec0efd/ee61075a-401a-4cc1-939c-0fee2a32bd43/e.jpeg Creative Practice - Places "Running blindly, we finally reached the marshes." For nearly a month, she and about 1000 others hid in the wet papyrus marsh pictured behind her. Only about 50 people survived. Though she lost so many loved ones in that time and in the period of instability following the end of the genocide, she is still a matriarch, community leader, farmer and generous human being. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/653aa9575e0edc0b13ec0efd/10b683ae-aa4c-477f-8a38-2852f44db63a/f.jpeg Creative Practice - Places "Redemption." After having watched the murder of his parents, losing other family members, and spending the remainder of the genocide running and hiding from the Interahamwe, this survivor retuned to school, built a home, started a family, and teaches about the genocide. 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