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  Lisa Hazell | Paperdoll Ancestry | Preserving Black Heritage Through Genealogy and Wellbeing
Where altar meets archive. Where memory becomes method.​
​Paperdoll Ancestry Studio gathers Black memory through ritual, design, and field-led care. —A living practice founded by Lisa Hazell
Paperdoll Ancestry Studio
This studio does not offer services. It tends systems of care. It traces lineage in language. It makes visible what is too often dispersed.

Through visual genealogies, altar design, and memory-led systems, the practice builds containers for return, witnessing, and belonging.
Paperdoll Ancestry Studio

Paperdoll Ancestry Studio

visual genealogies stories mapped in lineage, breath, and trace
​altar frameworks structures for remembrance and return
memory-led systems designs shaped by what lives beneath the surface
language for lineage phrasing the ineffable, fielded in care
tools for return digital and physical forms for ancestral dialogue
containers for belonging spaces where dispersed memory gathers and settles
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✶ this work does not perform—it remembers it does not offer service—it offers return you are not asked to consume you are asked to listen, to feel, to remain if you carry a name, a silence, a story held in the in-between 

read with us · listen with us · remain, here
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     Paperdoll Journal is a project of Paperdoll Ancestry Studio, led by Lisa Hazell.  
            Tracework ledger and CV available upon request.

  • Paperdoll Ancestry
  • Paperdoll Journal
  • Lisa Hazell