screenshots of the documentation film

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A bindle

(in transition)

What did you leave behind?

Set in the atmosphere of endings and departure, “a bindle (in transition)” is a reflection and documentation of a transitional moment in life. Exploring this question through a poetic lens, I trace back the experience of peers already gone and the objects they did not take with them.
A bindle is a cloth and a method with which a traveler can transport their only, or most necessary belongings from one place to another. Using the context of the graduation as a rite of passage, objects left behind by peers already gone, are reappropriated and reimagined as containers of care and remembrance, forming a counter-narrative to the bindle’s traditional purpose.
The act of binding, which is a universal practice, becomes a precarious but stable way of connecting materials left behind and stories of people on the verge of departure.
The installation shows a documentation in the form of interviews accompanied by the corresponding graduation material, being bound and transformed into bindles that wait to be carried away. A materialization of stories of a transitional life moment.