{"id":181,"date":"2019-02-22T09:08:00","date_gmt":"2019-02-22T09:08:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/somethingkindofwonderful.com\/selectedworks\/?p=181"},"modified":"2023-09-26T23:33:23","modified_gmt":"2023-09-26T23:33:23","slug":"the-lychee-tree","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/somethingkindofwonderful.com\/selectedworks\/2019\/02\/22\/the-lychee-tree\/","title":{"rendered":"The Lychee Tree"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Jennifer Goya
The Lychee Tree<\/strong><\/em>, 2004 and 2009
Experimental Documentary
9 minute, 29 seconds
Interactive: Web
Interactive: DVD-ROM

This is a 17+ year project that started in my final year of college. I recorded a series of conversations with my grandfather for my senior thesis project. He passed away while I finished this film. He never got to see the film we made together. I still get emotional thinking about him and the impact he has had on my life. I have come backed to this film and made other projects with it over the years. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

He was the one who encouraged me to leave Hawaii. He was the one who inspired me to connect with the land and to never forget where I come from–my ancestors, my home. I never got to say goodbye, but in away this is my way of doing that.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

There was a quote by Peter Galison, “we must have images, we cannot have images…” from an essay called Images Scatter Into Data<\/em> that is interwoven as the secondary narrative of this documentary. To me my grandfather’s words about the life of his plants and trees and that quote are still relevant today. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

This piece has been one that I’ve returned to over the years as way to pay tribute to his legacy and his life. I don’t think I’ll ever stop. <\/p>\n\n\n\n