Recounting, as the title suggests, explores memory and remembering. The red knotted ropes on the skirt of the figure refer to an Incan method of story telling- a form of memory. The quipu is a length of rope gathered together and knotted in specific ways, the order and number of knots relates specific information, a kind of PreColumbian book, that could be understood and given to others to transfer important information.

Here, the red knotted ropes also serves as a metaphor for a bloodline and a fabric woven together that tells of a family history. The figure's shoulder is touched by a white hand that urges the figure to look backwards in time and the cloudlike form at the left torso holds an image of a cold, wintry landscape, referring to the passing of time and the end of an era.