Through recontextualized archival family photographs, Hayden Brooks explores the mutability of remembering as a process of excavation and reconstruction, delving into layers of time and place. Through the exploration of a vast family archive, she embodies the universal journey to understand those closest to us, who deeply shaped us, yet who are never really ours. Wading through the paradoxes of clarity and mystery, she attempts to piece together the marks, traces, and fragments of those known and unknown to her into a coherent facsimile of her own lived history.