> [!NOTE]+ Meta > Author:: Thamotharampillai Shanaathanan > Reference:: https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/1359183515605858 > Date:: 2015 > Tags:: #SriLanka > WeftLinks:: [[Migrant and refugee value of craft]] > Claim:: [[Claim - Craft provides a way of sustaining cultural attachments to home]] > [!SUMMARY] Summary > This paper mentioned curated projects that tell stories of lost homes through displaced individual drawing and creating documentation of their home from memories. It covers trauma processing and symbolic cultural engagement through craft/practice by hand. The exhibition showcased offered a chance for understanding from external viewers. The damage caused by 26 years of armed conflict in its various forms on the social fabric of the Sri Lankan Tamil community has led to the loss of place, as well as displacement for many, compelling individuals to live with traumatic and fragile memories of home. This visual essay foregrounds the changing role of the author’s own artistic practice conceived both as eye witness and facilitator in this context. The essay also explores how anthropological tools and museum techniques are employed to draw audiences into the aesthetics of individual pain connected to experiences of loss and displacement in conflict situations.