Yael Serlin grew up in kibbutz Yir’on, next to kibbutz Bar’am. In recent years, she has been researching disintegrated Jewish communities around the world, seeking out their absent presence by mapping symbols and using visual materials which she collects in places where only traces or fragments of memory remain. By using materials and characters, she seeks to pave a path into the communities whose memory she records, among other things through private databases such as family albums, and public resources available online and in national archives.