building the world ii gathered ephemera, letterpress tray, gauze, plaster, wood
2021
Building the world ii is a tribute, an altar to and a rememberance of death transformation and rebirth in all of its forms. In the wake of a year of great change in my own life, I felt called to continue a work I began in 2017 as a memorial to my late grandfather. Having experienced a whirlwind of transition--a near death car crash, a flourishing of my personal practice and a complete upheaval of my rooted interpersonal relationships this work served as an outlet, an honoring of shed skin.
In this iteration I am exploring the grid as a maximalist sorting system. I am referencing the language of quilting, architecture, and masonry in the way things are organized or stacked. I aim for the work to oscillate between artifact, poem and divination tool in the way that it speaks to both itself and the viewer.
Presented as part of ‘Repercussions’.
In this iteration I am exploring the grid as a maximalist sorting system. I am referencing the language of quilting, architecture, and masonry in the way things are organized or stacked. I aim for the work to oscillate between artifact, poem and divination tool in the way that it speaks to both itself and the viewer.
Presented as part of ‘Repercussions’.