Lost Atlantic (2026) is a cyanotype on handmade cotton rag paper that investigates migration, memory, and the material afterlives of the Black Atlantic. Developed following an eight-day transatlantic crossing from England to the United States, the work reflects on the Atlantic Ocean not simply as a geographical space but as an archive of movement, rupture, and cultural continuity.

Layering photographic negatives through multiple cyanotype exposures, the work accumulates traces of time, landscape, and personal history within a single image. The resulting surface resists a singular narrative, instead presenting memory as something sedimented, unstable, and continually rewritten.

Lost Atlantic marks a significant development within Ani Lacy’s practice, extending earlier investigations into genealogy, archival photography, and ceramic materiality through the unique temporal qualities of cyanotype. The work forms part of an ongoing body of research examining how material processes can preserve cultural memory across histories of displacement, with particular attention to the experiences of the African American community within the wider Black Atlantic.