A Place to Remember You By
wood, watercolors on paper, clay, grass, cellophane, debris, painted shells, rocks, sketchbook, watercolor painting materials, box fans, ornamental grass, resin
March 22 - April 2, 2021, variable dimensions
“A Place to Remember You By” examines the entanglement of grief with place through an environment that simulates my past homes using synthetic and earthen materials. My experiences with displacement and dispossession coincided with the loss of my grandfather Charles, who taught me skills like how to fix the dock and prune roses. I learned the labor of care in the construction and preservation of the place our family called home. “A Place to Remember You By” exists as an immersive installation representative of the overwhelming experience of loss. Cellophane imitates the effect of water and its capacity to refract light. Uprooted grasses partially submerged in resin enact the decay of memory and my attempt to preserve it. I include objects that I’ve carried with me throughout my life, such as sketchbooks and rocks, which rest upon the dock I built to merge my past and present. I engage with where I live now through collecting local clay and creating watercolors to record the incoming tide of a nearby creek, documented as “Occurrence of Incoming Water: Between Tides.” Through these works I use the skills I learned to approach loss as a site of possibility with the potential to remap the past and reimagine the future.
Between Tides, handmade Potomac River clay watercolors on paper
Floodplain, clay, grass, cellophane, debris
Is this the right way?, wood boardwalk
Sometime in July, raised wood dock, painted shells, rocks, sketchbook, watercolor painting materials
Divide these grasses in Spring when they begin their growing season., ornamental grass, resin
Keep the root ball wet and trim the stalks., ornamental grass, resin
Cool down, box fans, cellophane, lighting gels
Between Tides, handmade Potomac River clay watercolors on paper
Floodplain, clay, grass, cellophane, debris
Is this the right way?, wood boardwalk
Sometime in July, raised wood dock, painted shells, rocks, sketchbook, watercolor painting materials
Divide these grasses in Spring when they begin their growing season., ornamental grass, resin
Keep the root ball wet and trim the stalks., ornamental grass, resin
Cool Down, box fans, cellophane, lighting gels
Sometime in July, raised wood dock, painted shells, rocks, sketchbook, watercolor painting materials
Some of them don’t make it., ornamental grass, resin
Cool down, box fans, cellophane, lighting gels (detail)
Sometime in July, raised wood dock, painted shells, rocks, sketchbook, watercolor painting materials (detail)
Some of them don’t make it., ornamental grass, resin (detail)
Floodplain, clay, grass, cellophane, debris (detail)
Between Tides, handmade Potomac River clay watercolors on paper
Floodplain, clay, grass, cellophane, debris
Between Tides, handmade Potomac River clay watercolors on paper
Sometime in July, raised wood dock, painted shells, rocks, sketchbook, watercolor painting materials
Divide these grasses in Spring when they begin their growing season., ornamental grass, resin
Keep the root ball wet and trim the stalks., ornamental grass, resin
Sometime in July, raised wood dock, painted shells, rocks, sketchbook, watercolor painting materials (detail)
Between Tides, handmade Potomac River clay watercolors on paper
Floodplain, clay, grass, cellophane, debris
Sometime in July, raised wood dock, painted shells, rocks, sketchbook, watercolor painting materials
Divide these grasses in Spring when they begin their growing season., ornamental grass, resin
Sometime in July, raised wood dock, painted shells, rocks, sketchbook, watercolor painting materials (detail)
Keep the root ball wet and trim the stalks., ornamental grass, resin (detail)
Nighttime view of the gallery
Nighttime view of the gallery
Image List:
Is this the right way?, wood boardwalk
Between Tides, handmade Potomac River clay watercolors on paper
Floodplain, clay, grass, cellophane, debris
Sometime in July, raised wood dock, painted shells, rocks, sketchbook, watercolor painting materials
Cool Down, box fans, cellophane, lighting gels
Divide these grasses in Spring when they begin their growing season., ornamental grass, resin
Keep the root ball wet and trim the stalks., ornamental grass, resin
Some of them don’t make it., ornamental grass, resin