On January 16, 2025, Remains // An Archive, a seed lab of the Diaspora Solidarities Lab, a part of the LifexCode: Digital Humanities Against Enclosure ecosystem, held a conversation at the Baltimore Museum of Art with four artists who created works to illuminate Remains’ research for its Slavery in Motion project. Dr. Brooke Mai, LifexCode Project Manager, sat down with the artists – Tatiana Esh, Julia Mallory, Romaine McNeil, and Sha-Shonna Rogers, to follow up with them after the BMA conversation and learn more about their processes and motivations. Read on for their generous and generative thoughts on the connections between art and history, the importance of mourning, and why preserving Black women’s knowledge is so critical at this moment.
