Memory Trace consists of a series of photographs of ruins and landscapes, and of several portraits of Arab-Israelis and Palestinians who, having lived in the villages that were evacuated and mostly destroyed during the 1948 War, were either displaced by the war or forced into refugee camps. The images are accompanied by the site's latitudinal and longitudinal coordinates, a reference to the population and number of houses on the site in 1948, the date on which the village was evacuated and the occupying force and Israeli operation that evacuated it, a brief note about what, if anything, replaced the village in the aftermath of the war, a note about what is visible in the site today, and a statement about whether or not the village has been renamed, is now without a name, or even registered in contemporary maps of Israel. In the instance of the portraits, Sheikh includes excerpts from his interviews with them, from their accounts of what they saw as their villages were evacuated and depopulated, or what they experienced after--and as a result of--the war, and the sorrow and loss they have endured because of their inability to return to their homes and land. That some of them died between the time he interviewed them and the time the trilogy was published suggests the urgency of securing their increasingly fugitive testimonies.