Jess Atieno maintains a practice informed by inquiries on place, home, and dispossession through the lens of the post-colonial. Atieno sees herself as carrying inscriptions of a colonial past, and studying as an adult in the U.S. made her increasingly unable to situate herself in a static reality of belonging. With this inspiration, Atieno time travels into history through its material remains, including historical photographs, maps, and documents, employing them in prints, installations, and tapestry. She turns to the idea of place as the transformative site of hybridity that offers alternative strategies for and models of representation within the post-colonial.