In 2009 I began to examine the issue of how memory functions to help us to ‘never forget. I visited places that were official ‘genocide’ sites such as Auschwitz and other Nazi death camps but I also began to visit other places like Tol Sleung and Choeung ek in Cambodia. I also visited Holocaust museums and communities such as Skokie where large populations of Genocide survivors had moved after the war. While I didn’t incorporate my family’s story at the time it was the beginning of the larger series that is now ‘If You LIved Here You’d Be Home By Now’ which seeks to ask personal questions of my own life as an immigrant in Canada with a family and how that connects to the history of Diaspora, displacement and resilience of my people. It is a work in progress and this was the first piece of it.
