The ladder is always there

hanging innocently

close to the side of the schooner.
We know what it is for,

we who have used it.

From Diving into the Wreck, a poem by Adrienne Rich (1929 - 2012)

Taking inspiration from Adrienne Rich's Diving into the Wreck, I continue to examine the layered experiences of communal, historical, and personal loss produced by Partition, approaching the event not merely as a historical rupture but as an enduring site of memory, absence, and contested belonging.​