Genealogical Deforestation and the Power of Archives: A Micro-Essay

Pile of tree logs (Unsplash)

Archives are spaces of living memory and power. The contents and size of which can tell us about who and what has been deemed worthy of an artifactual afterlife. In addition, they are legacy makers that encase the material of lived experiences in the amber of recorded history. The destruction of which is akin to violent erasure, to genealogical deforestation.