I Want to Hold You Longer emerges from Sarah Sense’s encounters with Chitimacha baskets in museum archives, where the desire to “hold them longer” became a reflection on ancestry, memory, and loss. In this series, Sense hand-cuts and weaves photographs with archival maps, treaty documents, and braided forms that reference her matriarchal lineage. The resulting compositions reveal the tension between beauty and erasure: delicate patterns draw the viewer in, even as the materials expose the bureaucratic systems that fragmented Indigenous land and identity. Through weaving, Sense transforms historical documents into living structures of relation, inviting viewers to linger with the complexities of inheritance, connection, and the stories that resist being forgotten.