This project consists of a series of short stories. They are based on each author’s experience of Dumile Feni’s scroll, which spends most of its time wrapped in a padded box in Wits Art Museum’s (WAM) storeroom—a climate-controlled, access-only facility. The scroll's fragility and the need to preserve it have had a significant impact on how audiences get to experience it. In 2005, it was shown in a large vitrine as part of the Dumile Feni Retrospective at Johannesburg Art Gallery. In 2016, a digital translation was made for Activate/Captivate at WAM, which attempted to mirror the experience of handling the work without putting it at risk. By moving your hand across a sensor, visitors could ‘scroll’ backwards and forwards through the digital translation. Although Activate/Captivate aimed to make artworks in their collection more accessible (by finding alternative strategies of engagement), this drive also harbours its own assumptions about what accessibility means. Like the scroll’s exhibition in a vitrine, the digital translation privileges sight over other forms of sensory engagement, with the paper and dowels treated as a support for the drawings, rather than an integral part of the whole. In addition, many of its material, historical, and mechanical associations were lost, replaced with a tech-savvy vocabulary that changed how the artwork might be read. In some sense, this project can be seen as an attempt to grapple with the scroll's idiosyncrasies—its spillages and tensions, its ability to ravel and unravel, to expose and conceal, to oscillate between thick and thin, and to condense time. Although based on the scroll, these stories are not ‘about it’, per se. They are stories in their own right, based on a subjective experience and everything brought to it. They are not here to tell the story of the scroll, but to keep it company in absentia.