The process of making this artist book reminded Sulafa of her excitement as a child to show family and friends all the analog photos from an memorable trip.

The art that came from a 9.45 km hike through Germany’s Tegernsee region became a similar act of witnessing and collecting. As she walked, she gathered stones and fallen branches, fragments of the landscape. In the studio, she crocheted onto these found objects, binding them with thread as if stitching a memory into being. The act of wrapping, looping and securing thread around these remnants became a ritual of care, much like tending to a collection of old photographs—handling them, tracing their edges, recalling the moments they captured.