Notes from Aarti’s diary is a story developed during my residency on g39’s UNITE Programme in 2019*. Written as a series of diary entries, it tells the story of a group of people of colour who became trapped inside a spaceship at the National Museum of Cardiff and explored life without racism, ‘after a surge activated the vessel and sent them flying throughout the cosmos, until they landed on the Planet Kelvin’. Whilst there, the group experimented with language to try and articulate their new found freedom and developed a language called Etsolstera.

To accompany the text, the group asked people of colour in Wales to respond to questions describing what the future (a future without racism) would look like and translating their answers from English to Etsolstera. They collected the answers into two books.