I Dreamt of Lost Vocabularies considers the megaphone as a conduit for ancestral narratives, oral histories and inherited memories. Reflecting on migration, displacement and fragmented language, the work considers how experiences carried across generations might persist despite rupture and erasure. The outer shell of the megaphone is wrapped in an image of the banyan tree – a symbol of interconnected histories, migration and rooted belonging – while a constricted tongue of plaited silk spills from the iridescent vessel. Suggestive of both speech and silence, the form gestures towards language as fragile yet enduring: capable of carrying emotion, memory and cultural inheritance across time.
