Essays by Aruna D’Souza, Jordan Amirkhani, and Pamela M. Lee round out the volume, which includes an opening abecedarium detailing the important sites Girouard helped establish, and a poignant introduction by Andersson that positions Girouard’s “memory maps” as both sigil and guide. Readers of this invaluable text can use these maps, and the rich ephemera of Girouard’s life and practice, to do what the artist herself had done from the very beginning: find a way to keep going forward with a strong sense of where we’ve come from.

Essays by Aruna D’Souza, Jordan Amirkhani, and Pamela M. Lee round out the volume, which includes an opening abecedarium detailing the important sites Girouard helped establish, and a poignant introduction by Andersson that positions Girouard’s “memory maps” as both sigil and guide. Readers of this invaluable text can use these maps, and the rich ephemera of Girouard’s life and practice, to do what the artist herself had done from the very beginning: find a way to keep going forward with a strong sense of where we’ve come from.

Essays by Aruna D’Souza, Jordan Amirkhani, and Pamela M. Lee round out the volume, which includes an opening abecedarium detailing the important sites Girouard helped establish, and a poignant introduction by Andersson that positions Girouard’s “memory maps” as both sigil and guide. Readers of this invaluable text can use these maps, and the rich ephemera of Girouard’s life and practice, to do what the artist herself had done from the very beginning: find a way to keep going forward with a strong sense of where we’ve come from.