For “I don’t want to say good morning” I go back to the place where it all started —my mother’s hometown; a place that I’ve known for almost my entire life but drifted away from some time ago. 

I revisit this place at night, not to seek a new scenery but to reconnect with new eyes to those spaces I knew, allowing me to see them in a different light now. 

Surrounded by darkness and silence, aware that memory is not reliable, I retrace moments from my childhood and break the night with flashes of light and color.

In trying to remember the stories this place holds, I translate them into new ones.