Seita is a video-recorded performance and installation work in which I explore themes of heritage, memory, materiality, ritual, and emotion. The work engages with two contrasting family memories—one from wartime, the other from peacetime. The first memory is a material one: a tablecloth my grandmother wove during the Finnish Winter War (1939–1940). An object deeply tied to the Finnish war-trauma and to my family history. This memory is contrasted with another memory of my grandmother making her children clothes from her own discarded clothes as she had moved to Sweden. These memories and objects serve as symbols of both survival and care, and through their materiality, offer a means to reflect on intergenerational struggles. The narrative of Seita follows a chiastic structure inspired by the creation story in Genesis 1:1–2:3. This structure mirrors and reverses the first and second halves of the work, emphasizing themes of renewal, hope, and the cyclical nature of human experience. It suggests that heritage is not just a collection of past events, but rather something actively shaped by the needs and power dynamics of the present (shaped by the past). Using an auto ethnographic method to explore my family’s memories, I aim to question how memory shapes the future and how the past continues to influence both personal identities and collective actions.