The creative process of Andrew Ntshabele centres on an active engagement with the archive. The archive is a contributor to public awareness. The narration of history begins within and through the archive, hence the archive is an imperative site of remembrance. To be included in the community archive is to experience an embracing sense of representational belonging. Contrastingly, to be isolated from the archive is to encounter a profound form of violent historical erasure, which in essence is an existence of absence, left unrecognised and ungrieved.