Dear 1646 unfolds through a spoken letter, a performative act of walking, and a small collection of residual materials. Through repetition, routine, and embodied movement, the work interrogates the distinction between agency and the desire to belong, reflecting on how geography and identity shape one's relationship to place. Oscillating between theoretical inquiry and personal vulnerability, it questions the authority to narrate, inhabit, or lay claim to an unfamiliar landscape while resisting fixed interpretations of diasporic experience. Rather than resolving these tensions, Dear 1646 embraces uncertainty as both method and material, allowing the everyday act of walking to become a site where belonging, owenership, and the politics of place remain continually negotiated.

The work was developed during an artist residency at Project Space 1646, The Hague.