A Common Burn (2023).

        A Common Burn is a sculptural manifestation of archiving and tracing the lineage of personal and collective artifacts. In this work, the active remembrance of pressings and rough outlines of what-once-was comes from personal relationship with Nel's Kazakh background. By burning, pressing, probing into the essence of what makes a culture and stripping it into its core visual motifs, the work intertwines these feelings with some artifacts from her personal life.

How can one enclose the essence within the formal boundaries of archival preservation that usually come in the form of a book?