Heirlooms

Arianna Ebanks

June 9th, 2026 4:41 min read 1289 words

My experience growing up in a mixed race home and mixed-cultured island shaped my outlook as a practitioner, how, and who I present my work for. Moving so far from home, it’s so essential to find sources of comfort and familiarity in foreign places. My research and reflective writing serve to aid each other. I present the tangential narratives of my work – adinkra symbolism and its prevalence in its Trans-Atlantic and colonial presence, ornamental architecture as a means of both visual communication, and the link in my work between post-colonialism, home-making, and Caribbean feminism, and the tension between them; This publication in and of itself serves as an archive - a gathering of my research and reflections. These are archives as places of home, love, and nostalgia.