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Dear Sam
2025, Multi-media installation
I am afraid I will forget the sound of my grandfather’s laugh. I watch and rewatch the same home videos, staring at my laptop screen, trying to memorize his every movement. I am desperately searching for any type of connection to him. I just want to hear his laugh. I remember lying awake staring at my childhood ceiling, terrified of what I would ever do if I lost him. How would I function? How would I survive? It has been 7 months, 2 days, 10 hours, 12 minutes, and 48 seconds since my grandfather passed away, and I still don’t know how to handle my grief. Nothing in the world makes sense to me. It overwhelms me, drains me, it makes me want to throw my laptop through my bedroom window. He left me almost 91 years of puzzle pieces to try and fit together. I look through every picture, watch every home video, and listen to every audio tape, realizing there is so much to go through, yet this is all I have left of him. I will never see him laugh again. I need to try and make sense of all this. This is the only way.